Top 868 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Rappers - Page 11

I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.

I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it

You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.

I try to stay far away from all of them. I was tempted to go to my snotty high school reunion, but luckily I resisted the urge--when I received the hand-out that described what everyone is doing now, I fell asleep reading it. Boring!

The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.

I don't split poles. When I'm walking with my friends by lampposts, we all walk on the same side. And I won't cross over your legs. If you're sitting down and like chilling on the floor, I won't walk over your legs because then you'll go to jail.

If you ever fall off, freestyling is what gets you back on track and go. Freestlying ain't always just to rap; you might fall off and you gotta come back. That's what freestyling is all about. Come off the dome with whatever is on your mind.

Nothing is promised for long or forever, so you have to put something away for rainy days. Especially when you got kids.

Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

To be comfortable in your skin was the biggest topic for me because I'm somebody who's always judged just by how I look. I wanted to get the message across that you don't have to hide yourself or be glamorous, just be you.

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

You can take back all the things you give, But you can't take back the days you live. Life is to some people who've been on earth Livin' every single day for what it's worth. I live life just how I please, Satisfy one person I know: that's me.

Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.

I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.

People understand my message is positive, and at the end of the day, I'm just here to make music that I enjoy and that other people enjoy. I think that's why I have such a loyal fan base.

I believe that what works for the consumer is to be able to determine what they can pay -- even if it is nothing. (Just joking.) Unfortunately, so many depend on credit for living expenses, and the lower payments helped them in the immediate term. I am OK with that. For those who want their minimum to be more, you don't have to wait on your credit issuer to increase the payment -- do it on your own. For others, at this time, I think it's a horrible idea.

I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black, you're dark-skinned, you're ugly. That really happens. This is something that started with slavery, when they divided the house, and it's still a part of today's society and things that we battle with.

For me, it just doesn't make sense that somebody could be out the same day or not have to serve a day in jail because they have better resources.

I want my foundation built, and I want to be strong enough to deal with everything coming my way.

I'm sorry that the family I was given has created so much chaos in the family I've chosen.

Eazy-E was cooler than Barack Obama and Michelle put together.

I have a good life... I wouldn't jeopardize the good life that we worked so hard to get.

Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us

I should have blown this mic like I said I might Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

I'm always looking for good music.

Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

For me, I guess, just learning that just because there's not a whole lot of female MCs on the front lines being supported by major record labels doesn't mean they don't exist. It doesn't mean they don't have the drive and the competitive nature and the will and the way.

The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress. In the days of old-fashioned colonialism, the imperial power had at least to explain and justify at home the actions it was taking abroad. In the colony those who served the ruling imperial power could at least look to its protection against any violent move by their opponents. With neocolonialism neither is the case.

Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty What justifies the homicide when he dies?

I played 100 shows before I got paid

I was happy to be a scrub. I was proud to be a scrub. When I got older and I started talking to girls, part of my game when I was talking to them was to tell them how poor I was. I actually enjoyed that.

Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical, Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catchin' 'em? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetchin' 'em.

My heart seem[s] colder than March but on the flipside of things, it's still warmer than June.

It's not about going to church every week because you know there's a lot of people who go to church all of the time who aren't going to heaven. It's not even about that, it's not about kissing God's ass, it's about being aware.

You're living up in Heaven, but I know you're mad as Hell.

I'm feeling like Billy the Kidd, skinny B.I.G. You literally live like a guinea pig

My music has always been the same. It's the same kinda music but of a better quality. For me nothing really changes just the work rate. It's the work rate that changes more than the music.

Ain't nobody gon' tell me how to raise mine. I'm a fight to keep a traditional household. That's just me.

I'm just talking in my songs about what's going on, what's exactly happening right now. If I was upset about something, I wrote a song. There's nothing I can't speak on. And everything I learned is from real-life experience, all first-hand: contracts, record companies, representation, everything. It's not from books: It's coming from the the heart. You can feel my pain, you can hear me turning my pain into a party. I'm not gonna let no one take the fun out of it.

Layin niggas so flat, homies think you plankin', Only realize you dead when the corpse start stankin'.

Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn’t give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls I’m talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs

I'm livin' in times where my daughters are found around Kids who can't afford thinking caps... But always found drinkin' raps and eatin' off beats, Claimin' laws of the streets. But who made the laws? Everybody playin' rebel with no sign of a cause.

'You claim to be the man, you want me for a lover, So you can do my girlfriends and my sister and my mother?' I said, 'You're very blunt,' with quickness to the cue, 'So whassup with your mother, does she look as good as you?'

I'm pain in the spoken form; This new strain came from where hope is gone.

How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

People will less and less need to put an identity on genres, such as "hip hop," "electronica" and so forth. That's what I try to do with Princess Superstar. Why should a musician be limited to only one form or one genre of music? And so, I think the same will hold true for the whole male/female categorization.

There's definitely a lot of responsibility to keep the good energy going.

I want people to hear my story, they're gonna feel my pain.

Words have a lot of power.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I'm your leader.

Ain't that a shame how they f-ck up ya name.

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

I'm pretty sure my audience could be bigger, if I could get it out a lot more different places, but that's what we're working towards right now today. It ain't like I'm at the end of our career or nothing like that, I just now getting started. I been in the game for a long time but I'm just now getting heard by people everywhere else. And they still seem to like it, so it didn't give me nothing but fuel, and motivation to keep it pushing.

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant? Oh you're not? I love you, period.