Rapper Quotes - Page 20

I was curious because I hadn't really known anyone to do just that, so I would stop in on his sessions with his rapper friends, and then one day, I told Astro Raw "I'm looking to sing. He told me to try it out and then we made 'Treat Me Like Fire' and everything started."

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

I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

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

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.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

I think its funny when people say a female rapper is too sexually charged, maybe the way I do it is a little more in your face but that's because I have to be aggressive and masculine to make it in the industry. If I talk about sex blatantly, when the mainstream media says it metaphorically every day, it's not okay? It's hypocritical.

Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

Bloggers are people too you rappers!

I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill, I'm fresh, look at me, I have money." At some point, when you have an audience for it, there are stories that need to be told.

My career is a development and that's a big thing because when I decided this was what I wanted to do it wasn't like "I want to be a rapper, I love the words and the beats in my headphones" it was more I wanted to live for music. I love music and I just want to be around it.

Why is it rappers feel like they have to show each other their balls? It's so frustrating to me and the fact that I've come to the realization that I'm not playing that game and I'm just happy whether I'm sitting on the keyboard, up on the stage, or doing post edit vocals alignments for someone I don't even know, I'm happy. I am successful in my own eyes.

People really don't know the extent of what I actually do. I'm not one of those rappers... "Hey! Make a hit. Throw it on an album! Sit at home and make more music." I put 4 or 5 mixtapes out and do shows all year long.

It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

This is where hip-hop has become so doomed lately, in this confusion that rappers are street guys. You are not street guys. Get out of that mentality. It's killing hip hop creatively, and it's killing morally. I just think it's a disaster. You're not in the streets and do not be confused about that. You're in legitimate businesses.

I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.

She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.

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

So please take a seat if you really can't stand it, got success in my pocket and these rappers in a panic