"Rappers are an excellent demonstration of this type of sexual signaling."
"21 Savage has outlasted the era he came up in while so many other rappers have disappeared Into Obscurity."
"It's kind of not the same... it's not just bars, it's like guys performing their bars, moments is like amazing."
"I heard Snoop told the story a few times but he had it wrong a little bit," Nas began. "He had said that Pac spoke to me, rest in peace Pac, but he was in New York and there was a lot of tension flaring."
"It was a brief exchange but little did they know that it would be a pivotal moment in their tumultuous relationship," Nas said.
"In that moment, a surprising turn of events occurred," the caption described. "Tupac and Nas embraced, declaring that they would put their differences aside and collaborate to create something powerful."
"I think we have a really great friendship. We have one of those friendships that you don't really get often in rap."
"I was fortunate enough to have mentors like Big Daddy Kane."
"I used to look at rap like I look at superheroes."
"What would you say is your rap's soundtrack like if you had to pick one? I might like your life the politte now that would be NAS New York state of mind."
"Another catchphrase that the YSL crew made popular is 'slatt'."
"He really is like a real artist in that sense. He's really kind of shut himself off from a lot of the things that rappers do."
"Male rappers are held to a higher standard when it comes to the street code."
"I do both there I feel that when Jay said it a lot of rappers said I will stop writing."
"We still on the ground like grinding grinding grinding." - Quality Control Music
"You went from a rap battle to a frickin pistol-whip guy."
"Rappers think they dope but they ain't nothin' but some hypocrites."
"I'm not a battle rapper, bro. I'm so much more."
"Most these rappers in the game is more bark than bite."
"There was no bigger presence in rap history than Biggie Smalls."
"Spooky outside, the rappers are coming outside, man."
"Who's the best? Talk Nas, Big ain't no best."
"Every single rapper in the industry, they know what I'm about."
"Ah, it starts off with Eminem in this dirty ass public bathroom practicing his rhymes."
"Anthony Mackie is in the movie, he's the main bad guy and he's the leader of this rap group slash gang or something called the Free World."
"This is bigger than rap, thank you. It's 10 years in the game, it's Bigger Than Rap."
"Rappers tell the truth, so you'd be the first one."
"I rap for the West Coast, I kill y'all dead bro, especially up in your lungs when I get [ __ ] done."
"The RZA got bars and knowledge because he read so many books."
"It's not really a good thing for people to be beefing or no rap stuff, like, that's not cool because of the awareness of the reality of real stuff, you feel me?"
"We only care about it when it comes to a rapper." - Jason Lee
"We're not gonna sit up here and and negate that the woman did not [__] shake, bake, and quake. No, she revolutionized what you know rap in the 90s."
"Is there a Lonzo Ball diss track on there? Does he bring the heat for Lonzo? Wooo, now that was seven songs and that was seven. So if it was long, it feels longer. Maybe he may have a more Lonzo diss, he got bars for me though."
"The Source magazine was like everything, Source Awards, all of my favorite rappers came through because of that."
"You 38 and you still rapping?" "But last year alone I grossed 38 mil."
"Isn't that such a great feeling when you meet somebody who only knows about rap as a fan and then you start saying [ __ ] about [ __ ] that's in real life is it public exactly things like I remember this."
"You're nothing like anyone, but you also could be KRS-One in a Mad Lion video."
"Girls like them, what is the problem when you know damn well you can't get it all? The one person can't get it all. There's so many people who choose to view rap as basically like a winner takes all type thing."
"I'm not trying to be lit. I'm a battle rapper every day I wake up, that's my goal. I'm trying to get up there with Sue Surf and battle Shotgun and all these colorful dudes."
"I got the best in the world right off the top."
"Dr. Dre: If there is a name more revered to the rap world than Dr. Dre, I don't know who it is."
"This battle is a classic that has lived on for the ages."
"Anyone even rapping is an art. So it doesn't matter, you could be rapping in the booth with an AK. But what you're doing is no different really to even if you murder someone in the booth and you're rapping about it still, it's still art."
"He raps about stealing credit cards and how to use them he also offers four you can pay him and he will give you tips on stealing credit cards stupid he's been arrested let's reiterate for stealing credit cards what is Michigan Detroit Michigan."
"I make your head mad till you break your spine like scoliosis."
"But we gotta approve you. Do you see that a lot in the rap world, though? A lot of people are pretending on Instagram. The ground, bro, you'll be having a lot of killing everybody."
"What's real to y'all? Is real just doing what you're rapping about or having at least did what you are rapping about?"
"The rappers weren't gangsters, the gangsters were gangsters, the rappers weren't gangsters. So what happened was the rappers started to be gangsters."
"A lot of rappers say they done killed this person shot this person but a lot of them is not true."
"Rappers have conditioned people to only acknowledge top 5 or top 10."
"The lure of the gangster lifestyle isn't limited to actual gang members. Today, the danger and excitement of that life is celebrated in rap, in films, and in fashion, where it's slavishly copied by young people without gang affiliation."
"...we need to stop this [__] everyone can be a rapper this is bad"
"I saw this rapper one time he came out he goes yo who likes money and everybody was like who likes money yeah i mean yeah you're gonna get everybody on board with that yo y'all like money"
"Sorry to all the homegirls that I pissed off. I love each and every one of y'all, but you ain't Jazz the rapper. Oh, big bag Jazz, the big bag, not the little one."
"For years Nicki Minaj literally single-handedly annihilated every rap in the building and in my opinion she still does."
"Now obviously most rappers aren't sitting around promoting that everyone should be a mass shooter and go shoot up schools and buildings and churches and grocery stores."
"He paved the way for a lot of rappers that's out now you know if it wasn't for him then you know rap wouldn't really be where it is today."
"I would go to the crib like 2003, so it's like oh three so O3, I was kinda like helping in charge of being in the, the rap battle scene at the school."
"He told him one day, he like, 'This I remember you bout to find somebody, I think it was bigger than me or something, you know?' He like, 'Man, you don't never stand down.' That's why he always like to know who was rapping first."
"I found out the rapping that they rapping, I ain't on that [__] my rapping ain't sounding like they rapping."
"It seems like all the male rappers are out here showing their complete ass."
"You can't be no rap gods, in fact, you're exact opposite."
"Ruining rap, it's not what rap is about."
"The Ghetto Boys were a legendary rap group out of Houston Texas."
"If Portland cement was like an old-school rap star he'd be the OG, the original gangster."
"Cool kids know it's cool to wash your hands, wash there for 20 seconds is all rappers should do."
"It's respectable to leave the rap game to become a good father."
"I love the fact that there are more female rappers now, 100% love it."
"We zoned in, and I'm zoning; we taking down our opponents; we break them down like opponents; just let me know if you want it."
"I'm just trying to tell these stories and piece these pieces together so that future generations can understand what was going on in the rap game."
"I see why people like Chance the Rapper; I see why they think he's a great MC."
"We've been through real wars, so you know, I really don't play with these rap wars."
"We are superheroes... rappers, before and after, we've been superheroes."
"We try to let the viewers get to know the rapper but also the person."
"We always welcome everybody to the rap world, and it doesn't really matter if you're a boy or girl."
"Dear Slim, I thought that maybe because you paved the way for me, you might relate to the weight that Caucasian rappers are carrying."
"I'll die behind bars but I'm gonna live for this rap."
"There was a time when rapping was considered corny; the drug dealers were the coolest guys in the neighborhood."
"In the genre of rap and hip-hop, there's nothing that resonates more than someone who actually lives what they rap about."
"All I care about is seeing my daughter smile, and my chain like the rap game, watered down."
"Authenticity was everything as a rapper, and that theme would continue for a long time."
"The city has had a strong rap scene since the 90s."
"She was a visionary, those who knew her said that she always knew rap would become a teaching tool later and everything that rap became, she saw it many decades before it actually came to fruition."
"People really love my lost/found rap media series, so I thought why not create another series but exclusively on unreleased rap albums."
"Once folk really see what I'm bringing to the rap, oh he bring him be yourself."
"It's all battle rap, we're all here for each other."
"Not guilty, that's how I stay filthy."
"I keep it warm like blankets or the comforter, kick an ill flow, I know that y'all can feel those, rappers be soft like down pillows."
"In my cypher circle, rappers couldn't get the green card."
"I always appreciate your spirit, man. You were always one of those rappers that wasn't scared to smile."