Rapper Quotes

You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.

I looked at Justin, and I was like: “Do you want me to go onstage for you?"

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.

You can't think. You just have to do things.

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There's no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Follow me and do exactly what the song saysSmoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill peopleAnd drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal.

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.

As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.

If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

Man… ninjas are kind of cool… I just don’t know any personally.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

Inside I'll always be an outsider

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

The Universe energy doesn't lie.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

They say your attitude determines your latitude.

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

I try to tell all the - not even the kids, even people older than me - to just be themselves. Don't wear what I wear 'cause I wear it; wear what you like.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my music. I want them to say, "This is somebody who's recognizing his true feelings, his true emotions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, and views on the world, all on one record." I want people to recognize that and to take it and apply it to their own lives. You know what I'm saying? The more and more I get out and talk to different people, I realize they appreciate that - me being unapologetic in whatever views and approach I have.

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I also like to take words that have negative connotations and show their real meaning.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.

My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

I'm not really book-smart.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

From what I remember, I remember always being a big fan of Kardinal Offishall. He just had that different flow and different flavor. He put himself on the record and that's the type of energy that we love.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!