Illmatic Rapper Quotes

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

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice. ~ Chance The Rapper

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. ~ Talib Kweli

Being compared to Biggie, that's the best feeling a rapper could have ~ Black Rob

A bird who wants to fly high will never frighten of sky ~ Kjiva

These other rappers getting bodied and carried away. ~ Drake

Wu-Tang is for the children. ~ Ol' Dirty Bastard

Too many times I've been wrong, I guess being right takes too long. ~ Drake

And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar. ~ Alan Vega

Big L is my favorite rapper of all time. He got killed quite a few years ago now but I think he's amazing and he kind of inspires me like his style inspires me. I don't think there's been anyone better since. I mean, Biggie Smalls is definitely on the top of the list but Big L is like the underdog, I like to give him the edge. ~ Andy Milonakis

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And [I've] always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money. ~ Young Thug

Jason Aldean is actually probably a really good rapper. He sounds like it to me. ~ Blake Shelton

Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem. ~ Big Sean

I secretly want to be a rapper! ~ Rachel Bilson

I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the art form of songwriting melodically - I know a bunch of rappers who actually go in before they write the lyrics and come up with the melody. And you can hear and feel that difference so much when that's the case. ~ Solange Knowles

Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence. ~ Cormega

Support me ... If you don't understand me don't write about me ~ Tupac Shakur

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

Brutality is boring. Over and over, hell night after hell night, the same old dumb, tedious, bestial routine: making men crawl; making men groan, hanging men from the bars; shoving men; slapping men; freezing men in the showers; running men into walls; displaying shackled fathers to their sons and sons to their fathers. And if it turned out that you'd been given the wrong man, when you were done making his life unforgettably small and nasty, you allowed him to be your janitor and pick up the other prisoners' trash.
There was always another prisoner, and another. Faceless men under hoods: you stripped them of their clothes, you stripped them of their pride. There wasn't much more you could take away from them, but people are inventive: one night some soldiers took a razor to one of Saddam's former general in Tier 1A and shaved off his eyebrows. He was an old man. "He looked like a grandfather and seemed like a nice guy," Sabrina Harman said, and she had tried to console him, telling him he looked younger and slipping him a few cigarettes. Then she had to make him stand at attention facing a boom box blasting the rapper Eminem, singing about raping his mother, or committing arson, or sneering at suicides, something like that⁠ - these were some of the best-selling songs in American history.
"Eminem is pretty much torture all in himself, and if one person's getting tortured, everybody is, because that music's horrible," Harman said. The general maintained his bearing a ~ Philip Gourevitch

Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl. ~ Tupac Shakur

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

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

You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white. ~ Chris Rock

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap. ~ Snoop Dogg

I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow. ~ Jess Glynne

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find. ~ Tupac Shakur

If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also ... I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill. ~ Yesung

As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures. ~ Jensen Karp

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it. ~ B.o.B

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there. ~ Chance The Rapper

If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope. ~ Talib Kweli

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

Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in ... ~ Tupac Shakur

Work som', twerk som' basis. She just tryna make it so she's right here gettin naked. I don't judge her-I don't judge her. But I could never love her cause to her I'm just a rapper and soon she'll have met another. ~ Drake

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

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting. ~ Queen Latifah

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated. ~ Riki Lindhome

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist. ~ Nas

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor. ~ Queen Latifah

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went. ~ Tupac Shakur

I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up. ~ SonReal

I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year. ~ Kanye West

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

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have. ~ Anthony Anderson

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper. ~ Donald Glover

Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! ~ Kanye West