Rapper Influence Quotes

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

As a rapper, I was heavily influenced by American rap albums. But for songs that are more melody-driven, I get my inspiration from Korean albums.

Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.

Kendrick was a real big inspiration for me. I seen him when I was younger... 'Rigamortis' was out... maybe I was 14... I rapped for him.

Every ghetto kid that walks the earth can see something in KRS-One that reminds him of himself.

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.

Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.

I honestly just live in Trippie Redd's world. I don't live in America... I ain't finna live anywhere else but America.

Mike Jones, Ying Yang Twins, then a little later, Wiz Khalifa and Meek Mill, too. It was the repetitive stuff with Mike Jones when he would give out his number, and I also like his style. Back then, actually, I still think du-rags, grillz, and stuff like that are cool.

I feel like this - everybody, every rapper to me, I feel like every rapper got a little bit of E-40 in them, whether they know it or not.

When Kendrick Lamar blasts Mr. Trump, he is preaching to the choir. When Eminem does it, there's a good chance Trump voters are actually listening.

I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

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

When you're a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school...it inspired me to keep going.

Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids

The more I got into my artistry, I got a bigger responsibility: the kids in Chicago, they look up to the rappers. We influence them.

In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me.

I always argue with a lot of people. They ask me for my top rappers, and he's always on my list. I mean, the GZA inspired me.

When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.

Along with 'Free,' where I sing quite a bit, there are additional songs on 'Skin' where you can hear my voice in the background - lots of 'oohs' and 'aahs.' But more often than not, I use my vocals to prompt other rappers and singers to feel calmer, better, bolder.

Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.

A lot of rappers were influenced off the West Coast, even from the East.

B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude's story form was so nuts.

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.