Best 173 quotes in «rapper quotes» category

I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

I do not consider myself the most stylish rapper out there.

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

I don't consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who've been in the game for years... they're like, 'Man, I'm trying to get on your level.'

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.

I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.

I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

I dunno, around 11th grade, 12th grade I was just like "yeah. This is something I want to do". I was always known; I was always the rapper.

If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up

I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions.

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth.

I lost my virginity when I was 6 years old.

I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece of this and make do with what's left.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

I'm the main rapper of B2ST, Yang Yoseob!

I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

I'm Uncle Snoop. That's the name I've been given in the industry because I'm like an Uncle to all of the rappers whether they are older than me or younger than me and I love giving advice. If I feel like they need some information, I give it to them, I sit them down and talk to them. I try to get all of the rappers on one page of peace, love and just having soul and just being about representing this music.

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.

I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.

It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'

I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

I think Lil Wayne is definitely a dope rapper.

I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.