Quotes About Hip-hop

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

Serious rap music puts me to sleep.

When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it.

When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

Scarface is my favorite rapper.

Benzino has a long, credible history as a rapper and as a producer.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

I originally wanted to be a rapper and musician.

I mean, Common was and is like my favorite rapper.

I secretly want to be a 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.

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

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

I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.

It's always hard for an artist from the U.K. to break into the United States. It's especially harder for a rapper because hip-hop is such an American art form.

When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.

I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.

My favorite rapper of all time is Jadakiss - hands down, no question.

I actually fell in love with hip-hop before I fell in love with Jesus. I'm a fan of hip-hop, I love hip-hop. I don't even necessarily want to call myself 'Christian rapper.' You know, I don't want to put myself in that little box.

I'm a producer and not a rapper. So I can make any style of music I want. I can make an EDM beat. I can put an EDM track out one day and I can put a grungy hip-hop track out the next day, like, it doesn't matter.

I say if you don't write your lyrics, then you can't be the best rapper alive. Not at all. You can be one of the best artists, especially in rap, you gotta write everything yourself.