Rapper Quotes

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

I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'.

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

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.

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

The people who support me and my dreams make me feel like I'm on top of the world.

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself and be free and be happy and still hold masculinity and love people and love flowers and just be happy being alive, well then, I can do that too.

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.

As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

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 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 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.

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 guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.

I spring train in the winter, around early December...

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.

Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

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.

A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.

I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.

You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.

People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.

Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

Eazy-E was not a rapper! He was a stone cold businessman. EAZY use to say that out of His own mouth. But one thing that he did have when it came to his artistry , is that voice. At least Eazy-E admitted he had ghost writers & people that wrote for him. Some of today's super star rappers will not admit they have ghost writers. Eazy-E always kept it 1000.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.