Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nas

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

Nas

Big up to Flex. Stop taking so much cizock in his mizouth.

Morris Chestnut

If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."

Mayer Hawthorne

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Puff Daddy

Lil Wayne is definitely the greatest youngest rapper alive.

Queen Latifah

I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.

Queen Latifah

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

Queen Latifah

As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

Vanilla Ice

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

Talib Kweli

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

Talib Kweli

I feel like people mislead themselves when they tell themselves they're into me because of the lyrics. From my vantage point, people aren't into me because of the content, because of the lyrics. Because there's a million of rappers who have great content.

Talib Kweli

Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

Talib Kweli

People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

Stevie Wonder

Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.

Nas

I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that.

Travis Barker

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

Rick James

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

Rachel Bilson

I secretly want to be a rapper.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.

Tupac Shakur

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

Tupac Shakur

When I die and they come for me bury me a g.

Tupac Shakur

The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay

Tupac Shakur

Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.

Tupac Shakur

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

Tupac Shakur

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.

Tupac Shakur

Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?

Tupac Shakur

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

Tupac Shakur

Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.

Tupac Shakur

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

Tupac Shakur

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

Tupac Shakur

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

Tupac Shakur

And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

Tupac Shakur

No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.