Rapper Identity Quotes

People compare me to Kendrick. I've seen comparisons with Jay-Z, with Nas, with Chance The Rapper. I get a lot of Eminem comparisons.

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

I'm a different type of rapper. I work more than the average rapper.

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

I'm from Atlanta, but I don't really consider myself an 'Atlanta rapper.'

I'm the first rapper ever popping his collar.

I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.

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

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

I had it just Lil Nas at first because every rapper has a 'lil' in front of his name, and that's funny to me. But then I got stuck with it because I already built a fan base at that point.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don't have that microphone or who can't rap.

I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.

I always want everything I do to be somewhat cinematic. I don't want to be the rapper that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it.

I am not a rapper. And I believe people in India are not even clear with the whole idea of rap or what it signifies.

I think a lot of rappers limit themselves by doing the gangster movies and that's stereotypical for a rapper.

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

I'm a human before I'm even a rapper.

I'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.