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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
A team on my own, deliver like a power play/ Call the king of rap, you can't take the crown away/
Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label ... And a good guy!
I told Khaled you the best but I'm the bestest. Better run for cover if your name is on my checklist.
There's nobody playing better than J.R. Sweezy
Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to.
Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game,
As far as from a standpoint of success, the only person who is in a position to make a claim like that sort [for the 'King Of The South' title] would be Lil Wayne - as far as success from a numbers standpoint. As far as longevity and success, that's the only person I feel like can say that.
Eminem found a legendary voucher in the form of Dr. Dre. He also perfected a unique performance style: as Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in "Haiku for Eminem" after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP, "The way you sound black/when you are conversating/but white when you rap.
Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.
Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.
Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'.
I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.
Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.
The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.
Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.
I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky:
R: Ravishing, I: Impress,
C: Courageous or Careless,
K: for the Kangols which I've got,
That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?
My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.
Curtis Curtis jackson..he's the fakest thug I ever did see
I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
I might Chris Brown her ass,
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'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.
I think Lil Wayne is definitely a dope rapper.
Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart!
Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep
Eazy, Dre, Cube. Conceptualizer, musicalizer, lyricizer. Father, son, and holy ghost. The trinity behind N.W.A.
I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.
I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.
I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.
I told Wayne to his face he was the dopest MC out. MC, not rapper. I told him to his face because I believe that, Wayne is nice! Wayne is bananas with his lyrics, with his whole delivery, with his whole thing. Lil Wayne is the man!
Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time.
I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.
My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.
Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous,
Always misbehaving and mischeivous,
Causing aggravation, I'll never pause,
Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.
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.
I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.
I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.
[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.
The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.
My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me.
I'm not really a rapper!
I'm a huge fan of Big L. He is my favorite rapper.
People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.
Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I've watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love.
I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be,
I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.
I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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Meek Mill - my homies used to call me 'Meek Millions,' and at the time I didn't have no millions, so I ain't really want to be called 'Millions,' so I just shortened it down to Meek Mill. 'Meek Milli,' my friends used to call me.
David Johnson Chorus.
Regardless of what people say, that's what they gotta bang in their heads: Ace Hood is the future. You ain't got nobody else in my lane.
Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra.
Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.
Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything
Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.
In the history of the hip hop world ... there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.
I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z,
Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z,
Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty,
B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too.
You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to
Pharrell has always been my style idol.
Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that ... What about Obie?
The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.
King of kings, that must be Elvis.
What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
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.
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Lil Wayne is definitely the greatest youngest rapper alive.
All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me
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Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be ...
I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics
I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.
So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?
I'm not really into rap.
A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic soul music and Ginuwine. Ginuwine and Usher laid the foundation back in the '90s. There's no one doing that anymore.
You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.
People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.
Casey Kasem not only played the music of the stars, he also reached the sunniest-sounding celebrity on his very own. Listening to him on the radio, you could hear America smiling.
I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.
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Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.
DeVante. Khalil. Neither one of them thought they had much of a choice. If I were them, I'm not sure I'd make a much better one. Guess that makes me a thug too.
You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.
While at BUD/S - Marcus Luttrell.
I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.
When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.
My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.
I decided on Assata Olugbala Shakur. Assata means "She who struggles," Olugbala means "Love for the people," and i took the name Shakur out of respect for Zayd and Zayd's family. Shakur means "the thankful.
The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.
I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know all their stuff.
I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.
The Weeknd is the dopeness.
I'm pretty sure JAY Z don't wanna rap right now.