Tupac Shakur Quotes

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.

In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!

I started rapping when I was 18-19.

Honestly, I started playing the pause game right after the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. That's around when pauses really started.

When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

When I was 18 or 19, I started writing raps properly.

I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.

As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

My default is e-40 because there's no one else in the world who raps like him. I've always loved e-40.

A lot of people's favorite rappers will literally get in the booth and just make sounds.

I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.

Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don't know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?

I wish I could rap! I wish I could rap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... Twista. He's super fast.

I know a beat is good for me when I can just start rapping. It's usually hard for me to do that.

I love me some Kendrick Lamar, love J. Cole.