A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.
A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.
Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
Dogs live longer than rappers.
I don't wanna forget the fact that I wanna be one of the best rappers. I feel like some of the best rappers ever - 2Pac, namely, one of them - could take sub-par beats or average beats and turn them into incredible songs.
I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.
I'm Uncle Snoop. That's the name I've been given in the industry because I'm like an Uncle to all of the rappers whether they are older than me or younger than me and I love giving advice. If I feel like they need some information, I give it to them, I sit them down and talk to them. I try to get all of the rappers on one page of peace, love and just having soul and just being about representing this music.
Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.
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.
All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.
Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.
Somebody can do a ten year stint in jail and when they come home, they can be a rapper. Or, they can go from doing the 9-5 thing and become a rapper because everyone else is doing it. I think that the test of time will tell. If you look around you'll find out who really wants to do it and who is doing it for the come up. I think that's the greatest separation. At some point along the line, it became gangsta to not be talented!
What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration. . . I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.
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.
I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats
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.
I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.