Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Mencia

When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers

Cher Lloyd

I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.

Chance The Rapper

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

Chance The Rapper

Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

Chelsea Handler

You got married recently to a rapper. It doesn't take them long to impregnate women.

Don Cheadle

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.

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.

Aziz Ansari

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

Al Yankovic

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

Donald Glover

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

Donald Glover

Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.

Afrika Bambaataa

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

Anthony Mackie

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

Chuck D.

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

Andy Milonakis

I'm a huge fan of Big L. He is my favorite rapper.

Anthony Anderson

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Andre Benjamin

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

Andre Benjamin

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.

Andre Benjamin

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

Angel Haze

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Dan Auerbach

You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

Rick Ross

Nah, that's not true.

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.

Tinie Tempah

I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.

Tinie Tempah

When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.

Vanilla Ice

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

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.

Mayer Hawthorne

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

Meek Mill

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.