20th-century Rapper Quotes

Eminem

Tupac Shakur

Jay-Z

Ice-T

Ludacris

RZA

Nas

See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.

Sirens sounded, he seemed astounded,
and before long the little boy got surrounded.
He dropped his gun, so went the glory,
and this is the way I have to end this story,
He was only seventeen, in a madman's dream,
the cops shot the kid, I still hear him scream
This ain't funny so don't ya dare laugh,
just another case about the wrong path,
Straight and narrow or your soul gets cast.

These are the breaks
Break it up, break it up, break it up.

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

I always say if you can't buy it three times over, you can't afford it. Don't drive a Bentley on a Benz income.

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

I'll do anything that's going to save animals. Anytime I can encourage people to think twice before [doing] anything to animals … that's a good thing.

Unemployment at a record high
People coming, people going
People born to die
Don't ask me because I don't know why
But it's like that and that's the way it is.
It's

Grab hold of a hot pan and a second can seem like an hour. Put your hands on a hot woman and an hour can seem like a second.

He just talks about eating too much... I don't like anything about Drake. I don't like his fucking voice. I don't like what he talks about. I don't like his face. I don't like the way he walks. Like, nothing. I don't like his haircut.

Guns, we don't like to use 'em
Unless our enemies choose 'em
We prefer to fight you on like a man and
Beat you down with our hands, and bodyslam you
At the wild, wild west.

I make beats like surgeons resume
To stitch up your wounds
Inside the emergency room
They must work urgently or you'll permanently be in a tomb
You see in the clergy soon
I enjoy physical intimacy with young men

I find it's distressing there's never no in-between
We either niggas or kings, we either bitches or queens
The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse
Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts
Long barrel automatics released in short bursts
The length of black life is treated with short worth.

We smoked out, with no roof on it, them people passin' so we smash on it

I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'

My song can make you cry, take you by surprise. At the same time, can make your dry your eyes with the same rhyme. See what you're seeing is a genius at work, which to me isn't work, so it's easy to misinterpret it at first.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

"[Relationships] never seem to work out, I mean it gets to the point where I have to be extremely cautious. You have to understand, this stardom thing is still new to me, I don't even consider myself "famous". It's 2008: if you have a blog, a mixtape and two pairs of skinny jeans you, too, can be 'famous'."

Well let me tell you something, I can't be nobody but myself. Ya know what I'm saying? The thing that makes the world love Flav is Flav being himself. So honestly man, to tell you the truth: it was not hard to be myself. It was real easy.

I'm not afraid of dying
I'm afraid of not trying.

I think after 9/11, when we were in our moment of greatest sadness as a nation... this small group of neo-conservatives used our pain in order to set their agenda on their course.

And we jolly green giants cuz we smoke so much broccoli

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently...