Jermaine Dupri Quotes

Rappers were my storytellers.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

I mean, Common was and is like my favorite rapper.

Ghostface, when it comes to hip-hop, was one of my favorite rappers and definitely one of my favorites in the Wu-Tang. He's also a really cool dude.

Scarface is my favorite rapper.

I heard 'Why,' and I think that's when I first started learning about Jadakiss.

My favorite rappers are, I can't really say. I like Kanye because he's so creative. He'll just do anything. I like what Kanye's bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple threat. But my favorite - my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac's girlfriend.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

With Jay-Z, it's hard not to be amazing.

Favorite rap album? Damn. Lil Wayne's mixtapes... He got a lot of good mixtapes like 'Da Drought 3.'

I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.

I love that twinkly, girl rap. I've always loved that.

Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.

You know, Slick Rick was tight at telling stories.

I got a close friend who raps.

I listened to Lil Wayne a lot when I was kid.

I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.

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.

I was a rapper who was 13 or 14 years old at one point, and it was a dream. I used to see videos of other rappers around the world, and I used to hope that I could be like that one day.