1.
Girls are like buses, miss one, next fifteen, one comin.
Gucci Mane
'Females are akin to buses, miss one, and fifteen more will follow shortly.'
2.
If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.
Tupac Shakur
If you allow someone to voice their thoughts at length, their true motives will become apparent. Hear them out thoroughly before articulating your own opinion.
3.
If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
Snoop Dogg
If it's flipping burgers at McDonald's, strive to be the top patty-cook in the universe. Whatever it is you do, you must be a specialist in your art.
4.
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.
Phife Dawg
I appreciate them cocoa, golden, Puerto Rican, or Haitian. I'm Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.
5.
Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
Jay-Z
"Don't relate to me what was uttered about me. Explain why they felt at liberty to express it to you."
6.
The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers.
Gucci Mane
7.
God is never late, we're just impatient.
LeCrae
Divine timing is never off, we are simply hasty.
8.
I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.
Tupac Shakur
I am a difficult individual to adore, yet when I do, my affection is passionate.
9.
The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.
Tupac Shakur
Genuine individuals are not surrounded by an abundance of acquaintances.
10.
Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.
Tupac Shakur
Life's a game of chance and I'm ready to roll the dice.
11.
Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life
Kevin Gates
I don't revere many MCs, I suppose I've had a more tumultuous existence.
12.
For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.
Chance the Rapper
I relish the opportunity to vocalize my narrative to an audience.
13.
When I wanted to be professionally known as a rapper I said I wanna take the moniker Gucci Mane. But all the people in my hood, not even my closest friends but everybody in Atlanta, calls me Guwop. I didn't start it. I can't put my finger on how it spread. I know it started from my boys but then everybody who I collaborate picked up on it and they'd say it to me.
Gucci Mane
15.
I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.
Drake
16.
I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
Lloyd Banks
17.
My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.
Drake
19.
I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa,
I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza
Immortal Technique
20.
Those who are heartless, once cared too much.
Frank Ocean
21.
Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that.
Rakim
22.
No [other rappers are on my level], none of them. Here, let me put it like this in the sky, there are a million stars, but when the sun appears, you see none of them. I am the sun.
KRS-One
23.
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.
Tupac Shakur
24.
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
26.
I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward
Tupac Shakur
27.
There's no New York rapper who's out that is competing with me because first of all, I'm the best.
Fabolous
28.
I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
ASAP Rocky
29.
We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?
Ol' Dirty Bastard
30.
Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!.
Lil Wayne
31.
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur
33.
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!
Kendrick Lamar
34.
George Bush doesn't care about black people.
Kanye West
35.
It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.
Tupac Shakur
37.
No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.
Jadakiss
38.
A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
Afrika Bambaataa
39.
No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.
Method Man
41.
I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven
Tupac Shakur
42.
I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.
LeCrae
43.
With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.
Lupe Fiasco
44.
But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam
Drake
45.
I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me
Tupac Shakur
46.
This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.
Tupac Shakur
47.
And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.
Tupac Shakur
48.
All these Lil' rappers, I'm just kind of getting real irritated by it. I said, 'You know what? Drop the Lil'. Forget it. I'm Bow Wow.'
Bow Wow
49.
I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.
Gucci Mane