Female Rapper Quotes

When Nicki was putting out mixtapes, she was the only female rapper that had any kind of buzz. And not to mention that she was on the track with the guys, you know? So you had the girls playing it, and you had the hood guys playing it, too, so you couldn't run away from Nicki.

People had boxed me in as a 'pretty girl with followers that's rapping,' but I think my project and the work speaks for itself.

As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist.

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

Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'

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

Lisa 'Left-Eye' Lopes in TLC, she stood out a lot with her rap. It was so different, the way she would flow.

Girls, we have to go 10 times harder than guys. We are still expected to give you the bars, give you the look, give you the routine. This is me - I wanna be a rapper, this is it.

When I first started rapping, I was like, 'I'm gonna be, like, the female Eminem.'

I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.

And if you a G you a G-G-G. My name is Onika, you can call me Nicki.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.

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

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.

I know for a fact I've put in the same amount of hours as every up-and-coming male rapper right now, if not more. I'm a feminist with regard to my music and the music industry.

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.

When I was first coming out, I was definitely getting a lot of comparisons to Trina.

My favorite hip hop album would be the 'Miseducation of Lauren Hill.'