Top 336 Rapping Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
Boosie is like the Lebron James when it comes to rapping, so you know if he feels it he's going in, and he gives 100 percent.
Obviously, my aspirations are to be considered one of the best. Like, anyone rapping should have that mindset.
What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
I don't take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.
Rapping was a joke, but the music helped me break out of my shell.
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others
It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.
I grew up listening to T-Pain and The-Dream, and they were doing that thing, rapping and singing at the same time. That's where I get it from.
I listen to R&B when I ain't rapping. It's soothing, it relaxes my mind, it takes me to different places, and it just opens up my brain.
I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.
If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.
I wasn't rapping and freestyling in high school. I wasn't telling people I was gonna be a rapper when I was a little kid. It wasn't set in stone that it was my dream.
SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.
You gotta step up your bars! Look, I run two labels. I sing. I dance. I don't spend all my time rapping.
I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
People had boxed me in as a 'pretty girl with followers that's rapping,' but I think my project and the work speaks for itself.
I'm influenced by like, 50 Cent and Chief Keef 'cause they were rapping about the same things I was living.
I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.
I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
I don't plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn't want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name.
To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain.
I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.
I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.
If you listen to the old Rock I always had one tone of rapping, but now I'm learning how to stretch out my voice and use it in different ways.
In order to maintain your longevity, you have to know the business. It's not about just rapping and performing.
I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.
I hate it when people in India throw in an American or English accent while rapping without even a passport in possession.
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
I envy Jonghyun's technique and energy, Onew's voice, Key's rapping skills and Minho's looks.
Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in.
Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.
Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.
I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.
I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.
I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.
I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.
When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
I always loved music, and really, I've been rapping since I was, like, 12.
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
I wanted to explain that just because I'm rapping in this funny way doesn't mean that I'm not worthy of actually being evaluated as a rapper.
Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.
As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.
If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents.
You see somebody rapping and you're like, "Nah, my cousin can do that." You're spoiled by the experience. Overseas, it's still something that people can appreciate.
When I started rapping, I was like, I'ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn't happen. I didn't have time.
50 Cent should stick to what he does best, rapping, and leave the funny business to comedians.
I'll be honest with you: before I heard Nicki rapping, I probably wouldn't have thought to rap myself. Just to see a female doing it and being in there with the guys, it was motivation.
I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.
In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.
Rapping is competitive. Even someone who is not particularly fond of my music, may claim to be my fan only because he hates Honey Singh.
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.
I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract was in front of me, I didn't have a rap name.
