Rapper Authenticity Quotes

I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and you go to say it, you lose a lot of color about what you're trying to say, so to me the best rappers are the people that don't lose that color.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.

It's not that I'm playing a rapper. I definitely feel like I'm a legitimate rapper. I just think that, who I am, there's more to me than just being a rapper.

Curtis Curtis jackson..he's the fakest thug I ever did see

A lot of rappers say 'I'm talking about stuff that goes on, what I grew up in, that I know about.' And these journalists say, 'Yeah, but you're making 80 million dollars, that stuff's not about you.' Look how long he's been making 80 million. He grew up poor in an urban city and the things he's experienced and knows.

You get people who rap about stuff that they don't do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you're like, 'Wow. They're so sweet.'

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

You always hear rappers say they don't write, but they're not really talking about anything.

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.