If I was a white rapper, the bar for me would be Eminem. Of course his white skin helped him excel to heights that a lot of other rappers couldn’t, but he still was talented. People gravitated towards him because of his skills. He stood the test of time.
Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I’m the best at getting my own point across.
My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.
I’m going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don’t know exactly what it would be for, specifically, but I want it to be a change I make in the world with my music.
Love life readings are my least favorite things to do in the world because I can sit with Amber Rose and say look ‘I’m seeing a ‘T’ name. This is gonna happen, stick with that relationship. Don’t date a rapper.’ And then she’ll go and date a rapper.
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
I feel like this – everybody, every rapper to me, I feel like every rapper got a little bit of E-40 in them, whether they know it or not.
I’ve never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I’ve never considered myself a rapper.
When you’re looking for good lyrics, you turn to Kendrick Lamar, you turn to J Cole, you turn to Wale, you turn to Chance the Rapper, you turn to Rapsody. You don’t turn to Post Malone.
I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don’t even like New York rappers.
Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
No one said, ‘This is the best female rapper.’ It’s more like, ‘Lizzo can really rap.’ I think its because I’m not that sexy girl. I’m that beast girl.
It’s hard to say a favorite rapper. If I had to pick two, I’m going to go with Busta Rhymes and Jay-Z.
I feel like that’s what’s going to be most respected at the end of the day, that I’m able to do so many different things and become less of a rapper and just more as a musician.
In my heart, I believe I’m a top flight comedian and a top flight rapper.
I’m not a rapper; I’m an artist. And I’m more than an artist. I’m a brand.
I strive for perfection, but I’m 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.
Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you’re not supposed to be the coolest guy.
I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.
I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
We’ve been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you’re always trying to find that end. So ‘my shot’ is speaking of a variety of shots. When you’re a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you’re supposed to take.
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you’re an artist who’s making something which isn’t how its mainstream appearance should be, there’s always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be ‘real’ as a rapper.
There was a time in the ’90s where, as an African-American man, you had to be a misogynistic R&B star or a rapper, and I didn’t fit into either one of those. I was advised by my label to remain closeted at that time.
I wanted to become a rapper after I got shot. I rapped before, but I ain’t want to be no rapper.
Can’t a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possibility that I was a good rapper was very intriguing.
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process – maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like ‘Lights Please’ happens like that.
I’m not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I’m from. I’m creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.
I’m a rapper, not a singer.
It’s pretty hard as an Asian rapper to not be put in a box. I do my best to avoid that.
If you call ‘Rapper’s Delight’ an old-school record, I agree with you. If you call Sugar Hill Gang old school, I agree with you. Not because they came out in ’79 or ’80, but because in 2002, that’s still the way Hank and Mike rhyme.
Honestly, I personally would prefer to have my name not mentioned alongside codifiers, like ‘white rapper’ or things like that, because the codifiers I like are Texas rappers. If you were to compare me to Lil’ Keke or the people that really inspired me, like UGK… In my mind, that’s who I think I should be compared to.
Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I’m not a normal female rapper – it’s not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That’s just not me.
If Chance the Rapper was on tour in L.A., I would try and play with him. I love him.
My mom had wild records, like Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson and the Whispers. But the first record I bought was ‘Rapper’s Delight.’ It had a sky-blue cover with a rainbow. My aunt gave me money to get it, and I played it over and over on the record player.
My name is actually Snoh, but there’s a rapper with that name already out there, so I was asked to add something to it. I didn’t really want to do it at first, but then I thought of Aalegra. It has a connection to music and means ‘joy’ in Italian.
I’m not only a rapper, I’m an entertainer.
I’m not a rapper.
I love being an example, that, hey, I’m young, I’m a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation even for me.
