Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyga

The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

William Wordsworth

The truth is easier when you leavin' it out. Like when you "5 minutes away" but you're just leavin your house?

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

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

Tupac Shakur

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

Tupac Shakur

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

Tupac Shakur

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

Tupac Shakur

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Tupac Shakur

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

Tupac Shakur

Can you picture my prophecy?

Tupac Shakur

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

Tupac Shakur

I ain't racist but lets trade places.

Tupac Shakur

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Tupac Shakur

I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

Tupac Shakur

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

Tupac Shakur

My only fear of death is reincarnation

Tupac Shakur

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

Tupac Shakur

You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?

Tupac Shakur

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

Sandra Bernhard

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

Will Smith

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

Wale

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?

Wale

I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.

Wale

You niggas so-so like a seamstress.

Wale

You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.

Salman Rushdie

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

Whitney Houston

If I should die this very day, Don't cry...cause on Earth We wasn't meant to stay.

W. S. Gilbert

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens

Saul Williams

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

Saul Williams

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done

Wiz Khalifa

I spend a lot of nights thinking How did I make it this far? I spend money every chance I get Cause god damn I work hard. Put here to take care of he family But how was I supposed to know If I don't take care of myself Then how am I supposed to grow?