Top 177 Rappers Quotes

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A whole bunch of ‘ayes’ and a whole bunch of ‘yeahs.’ That’s it. That’s all I do. I say yeah. I tell myself that I’m not gon’ go over 80. I say, like, 79 yeahs, and it works. We what you call mumble rappers. So you say ‘yeah’ after everything and make it rhyme no matter what it is.
Lil Uzi Vert
There are so many other rappers that’s way better than me. I’m in agreement with that.
Scarface
Rappers make what’s in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.
Nelly
I don’t knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims on a car? It’s ridiculous. There’s no substance. It’s a hollow shell.
Gza
Lil Wayne was one of my favorite rappers.
Lil Dicky
None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don’t put us as rappers. We’re all artists.
Desiigner
A lot of rappers don’t have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.
Mariah Carey
I’m serious; I don’t, I don’t rap. I flow; I’m a flow-er. You’ve got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I’m a flow-er.
Method Man
The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers – I always noticed that.
Cordae
The fact is, I’m the biggest rapper from Memphis, I help a lot of rappers from Memphis.
Yo Gotti
You can’t speak for the people unless you’re able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?
DMX
If it wasn’t for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn’t look like they do and rappers wouldn’t sound like they do.
Luther Campbell
A lot of the time, people think rappers just live inside this bubble. No, the reality is there is conversation that happens. It’s not this one-dimensional thing. There’s reality that takes place.
Thundercat
I grew up producing hip-hop music, actually. I was producing for my friends, who were all rappers in upstate New York, where I’m from. But in the eighth grade, we had this songwriting contest in our school, and I got really excited about it and actually won. After that, I just kept making music forever.
Gus Dapperton
On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
R. Kelly
I can’t really rap the way rappers rap; I drive a 2002 Toyota Avalon.
Lil Dicky
On the second verse of ‘Tears to Snow,’ I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the underground world who I might’ve know for a little bit, or they might’ve opened a show for me. A lot of them talk crap about me behind my back, and they’ll smile in my face.
Hopsin
I think that a lot of battle rappers have a difficult time making songs because they don’t know how to do a song format. They’re so stuck in that whole battle rap mentality that really all they want to do is just kick rhymes.
Big Daddy Kane
If women dabble in rap but they’re not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
Awkwafina
I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I’m concerned about is the NBA’s image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I’m all for it.
Antonio Davis
When I was 24, I realized I could never be one of the best rappers, but I knew I had some of the best ideas.
Jesse Itzler
Quite a lot of the American rappers will be a bit confused by the humor and a bit lost. But I think you have to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Miquita Oliver
Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.
Dizzee Rascal
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don’t really mean nothing.
Trick Daddy
When you’re a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school…it inspired me to keep going.
Saweetie
I prefer rappers who have something intelligent to say.
Jemele Hill
What we thought brings us a disadvantage, brings us an advantage against the American black rappers, because they look all the same, with their training outfits and sneakers, you know? But we didn’t know this, it wasn’t calculated.
Rob Pilatus
There’s rappers out there that don’t even know how to rhyme. They take someone else’s words and go with it. To each his own.
Big Daddy Kane
I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, ‘If I wasn’t doing this, I’d be dead or in jail.’ Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?
Tony Rock
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don’t really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
Morris Chestnut
Back in the day, rappers were ‘bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.’ They was rhyming like that, but I was like, ‘bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.’
Rakim
It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's

It’s not even the female rappers that are catty – it’s the fans. They just want that beef.
Cardi B
My taste for rappers is very high. I’ve only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface.
Mike Dean
If an athlete plays the guitar, they say, ‘That’s so cool, he can play the guitar.’ But if a guy raps, they say, ‘Please don’t be another rapper,’ only because the rappers are so bad. I promise I’m not anything like that.
Iman Shumpert
For some reason, we have completely separated Christians who are rappers, and we have separated, I guess, regular rappers. I feel that we should be able to mingle, enjoy each other’s company, and trade ideas.
Andy Mineo
A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.
Jay IDK
Ghostface, when it comes to hip-hop, was one of my favorite rappers and definitely one of my favorites in the Wu-Tang. He’s also a really cool dude.
No I.D.
People in rock had this idea that rappers aren’t talented. In my opinion we’re better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder – Rap evolves faster than any other genre.
JPEGMAFIA
Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I’m just a fan of his work.
Rex Orange County
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It’ll get to that same point.
George Clinton
All rappers exaggerate.
Fat Joe
Rappers should sit down and construct quality lines.
Gza
People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin’ in their lives.
Afrika Bambaataa
When I was young, I wanted to be like the rappers. I remember being in junior high and wanting a fisherman hat and a link because EPMD had one. I wanted to wear Adidas because Run-DMC wore Adidas. As I came into my own, I just wanted to do me.
Cam’ron
Yeah, if you go too far, like there’s some rappers that use words that just be a little too out there, it makes it where someone doesn’t really know what you’re talking about and don’t really have the time to sit and try to understand.
Big Daddy Kane
I’m so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I’ve been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver – no rappers, no comedians.
T. J. Miller
I want to be one of the most versatile rappers in the game.
Freddie Gibbs
I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.
Jason Reynolds
I’m usually bored with both gangsta rappers and underground ones, too.
Madlib
I actually love the ‘rappers look,’ with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It’s very deliberate.
Carine Roitfeld
I feel like when you listen to music, it’s almost like the same thing over and over, but of course as time goes on, rappers evolve, lyrical play evolves.
Jarvis Landry
We as rappers have a job and have to get fans music and let them know about stuff that’s coming out. So if everyone migrates to Twitter, that’s where we go.
Chamillionaire
You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.
Eminem
Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They’re involved in politics whether they like it or not.
Lil B
You know how there’s all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on ‘Andy Griffith,’ they had Aunt B.
Ad-Rock
I believe there are talented female rappers out there that aren’t one-dimensional. It’s OK to be one-dimensional, by the way.
Doja Cat
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don’t see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
R. Kelly
I’ve been around so long that I’ve seen rappers make it and plummet.
Tech N9ne
It’s always cool when you get immortalized on records. I am just happy that I have gotten to the level where rappers who can actually rap say my name in records, regardless if it’s a diss or not.
Charlamagne tha God
I was one of the first rappers to have his own forum. Then 50 Cent made ‘Thisis50.com,’ and everyone made sites just like it.
Chamillionaire
My killer crossover project would be to combine Bjork and Grace Jones with the West Coast rappers and create this massive music. That’s, like, one of my dreams.
Jason Moran