Kendrick Lamar Quotes

My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

I'm a fan of J. Cole.

I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I haven't been involved in so much is hip-hop, which I chose not to be involved in because it felt like I would be what they called "perpetrating." It felt like hip-hop was so much of its own culture and that I was not part of that culture.

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.

I am Nicki Minaj, I mack them dudes up Back coupes up & chunk the deuce up

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

Many people say Nicki Minaj is a rapper, but she's also a singer.

I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.

I grew up with, maybe not the best hip-hop in the world, but a lot of hip-hop. Will Smith was, like, my jam when I was, like, 9 or 10 years old.

Jermaine Dupri is a b-boy, and he's dope.

Drake is my favorite rapper.

I got no problem with Nas.

Nas was a huge influence. That's probably my favorite rapper of all time.

When I was little, I used to listen to Lauryn Hill, so that's that hip-hop and R&B influence in me.

I really like G-Herbo.