When I was a rapper, the groupies didn’t have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.
Many people say Nicki Minaj is a rapper, but she’s also a singer.
Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song – there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we’re all over the place. I like to try different things.
In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I’m not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
I don’t like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don’t just rap.
I’m a different type of rapper. I work more than the average rapper.
I didn’t want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda – God bless the dead – influenced me to do that.
My problem is I’m not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I’m like, ‘Oh God, I wish I could dance! Oh God, I wish I could rap!’ I can’t be a rapper, and I’m sure as hell not going to be able to dance for a living, but I want to do it all, you know?
When I meet pastors, I’m not like, ‘Hey, you should go out there and be a rapper.’ Because for so many of us, I think it would just pull us away from our congregations too much to be able to serve them like we should.
It’s certain rappers that can really rap, that really spit all bars, so I understand why someone would say, ‘You not a real rapper.’ But the main thing is, if you can make good songs, who cares? So I don’t know why guys be tripping on Drake. He makes great music. He’s dope.
I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
Teddy Riley was telling everyone I was his female rapper, but he never came through. And Michael Bivens promised me all kinds of stuff but then he told me to wait.
I’m an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain… The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.
Until now, I’ve not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
When I get done playing basketball, I’m definitely not going to be a rapper. I’m not going to be an old person who is focused on being a rapper.
I’m not the greatest writer or the great rapper.
People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.
The best bounce rapper ain’t gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.
Although I had the label of being the ‘pretty girl rapper with a lot of followers,’ I just broke the rules.
I’m not a rapper. I stay in my lane.
I never wanted to be no rapper.
There are guys like Chance the Rapper; I’m a big fan of his.
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
I’m not a horrorcore rapper. I rap my life, but I love horror movies.
I don’t even feel like a rapper.
I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.
I had it just Lil Nas at first because every rapper has a ‘lil’ in front of his name, and that’s funny to me. But then I got stuck with it because I already built a fan base at that point.
The film’s star, Eminem, doesn’t appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful ‘8 Mile’ is a raw version of the rapper’s own story.
My brother and I always had conversations about me being a rapper. I always used to tell him, ‘I’m gonna be the hottest rapper.’
I don’t want to be considered ‘the Latino rapper.’
I don’t like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It’s hip-hop. I’m a rapper.
I’m not a rapper.
To me, rap music is bigger than who’s the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It’s everything about your personality.
I don’t actually like calling myself a rapper. I’m more a performer.
If I apply myself to rap, I’m gonna be the best rapper alive. If I apply myself to comedy, I’m going to be the funniest guy alive.
I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap.
Stay in school… Even being a rapper you need an education.
I don’t feel like I should just be a rapper. That’s boring to me.
I’m glad I’m a woman; I’m glad I’m a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.
I take chances. I don’t limit myself. I don’t think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song ‘Sail Away.’ But that’s what fit.
I was a little nervous that people wouldn’t take to ‘Under Pressure,’ because my style and what I embodied had previously been the braggadocious ’90s fun rapper type. Before this album, I didn’t rap about my life much.
You can’t really label me as a musician, a comedian, or a rapper – you know, it’s different.
It’s not that I’m playing a rapper. I definitely feel like I’m a legitimate rapper. I just think that, who I am, there’s more to me than just being a rapper.
I feel like Europe is way more advanced. They’re way more open to the definition of jazz. More cool. They’re like, ‘You want to do that? Awesome. You want to work with a rapper? Awesome.’ They’re not, ‘Aah, it’s not real jazz.’
I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it – I didn’t want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I’m not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas… his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you’re a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, ‘I’m a musician.’ Or, ‘I’m an artist.’ ‘I’m a recording artist.’ ‘I’m a vocalist.’
Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It’s really just each person’s personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.
Everyone’s supposed to stay in their lines and be neat. ‘You’re a rapper. You’re supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club – that’s all you do. What are you doing collecting art? What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you’re getting out of the zone.’ People hate when people cross lines.
You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.
I know for a fact I’ve put in the same amount of hours as every up-and-coming male rapper right now, if not more. I’m a feminist with regard to my music and the music industry.
Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him.
I don’t really know the logistics of a Soundcloud rapper.
Drake, I’d like to collaborate with. He’s a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there’s something about Drake; he’s more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical – I love that. He’s just clever.
It’s so irritating, because male rappers don’t have to have a look. A guy can look like a bum on the street, but as a male, people will accept him because he’s a rapper. But females, they expect you to have a big booty. They expect you to walk in six-inch heels.
I thought I was going to be a rapper as a kid and used to hop the train down to Jazzy Jeff’s studio for, like, six months straight waiting outside of the studio for the big break, and one day we got in the studio and played our demo for Will and Jeff and quickly learned that we weren’t that good.
I’m not one of those rapper guys that spend nights in the studio. I hate being in the studio.
Nothing I do is ever void of melody. I know it might seem like I’m doing a lot of rapping, but I’m always utilizing tone and trying to find a key signature. So, I don’t look at myself as a rapper.
It’s always hard for an artist from the U.K. to break into the United States. It’s especially harder for a rapper because hip-hop is such an American art form.
‘Rapper’s Delight’ came from the TV entertainment show ‘Good Times,’ but when the times called for a shift in the narrative, artists answered, covering brutal truths in their rhymes that were uncomfortable for society to confront.
I’m not just a great white rapper. I’m a great rapper.
I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend’s back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
I’m very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.
I definitely am the best rapper alive, mark my words.
We are all people… don’t label me as an LGBT rapper or a female rapper… I don’t like to be labeled.
I’m the best SoundCloud rapper.
Since I was a kid, I’d wake up every morning hearing a voice say, ‘You’re the greatest rapper ever.’ I’m trying to prove that voice right.
Kendrick Lamar is not a whack rapper, not at all. Do I think he’s a super-mega-lyricist? Not really.
