Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.
Growing up, being a rapper wasn't my goal, but it became my destination.
Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.
What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.
Being compared to Biggie, that's the best feeling a rapper could have
I don't even like New York rappers.
I'm a huge fan of Big L. He is my favorite rapper.
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Maybe it's easier to have that desire guest-spot-packed album, for example, you're a rapper and you need someone to sing the hook. I guess for us, it just kind of feels like we want to explore ourselves more. That sounds kind of cheesy, but I don't know. I have a lot of artists whose music I have this perfect relationship with, and I don't really feel like I need to meet them or get to know them or write with them because of it.
John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.
It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.
What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.
Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare me to them.
When I die and they come for me bury me a g.
But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing.
Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.
I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.
One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.
How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all.
Everything he wanna have-I got.
Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.
While I'm dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear them suckas scheming.
Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.
