He was not hip-hop`s most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
Michael Eric Dyson
If I have a rapper like Common rolling hard with me at a club and I hand him a microphone and he hits five songs in a row and the crowd goes crazy, I don`t feel guilty about drinking on the house.
Jeremy Piven
[on working with rapper Malicious Jynx (2005)] There is just something about him, he is so talented and so gifted, so flamboyant and so charismatic. He doesn`t deserve the harsh criticism he receives. Anyone who listens to his albums with their hearts and...
Debbie Allen
I was in third grade when Rapper`s Delight changed my life. But, when I came home, my mother would be listening to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Diana Ross. I want to include all those elements in my music.
Jennifer Lopez
I used to do the beat box... a friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we`d be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he`s gettin` all the attention and I`d end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats... and I was li...
DMX
[On his feud with bubblegum rapper Ja Rule] Right now he`s desperate. He should be talking about me, not Eminem and [Dr. Dre] and everybody else. He`ll lose, he knows that. The route that he has to take is the "I`m a mad gangsta" hardcore route, and ain`t...
50 Cent
I was only eleven when we filmed the pilot. I didn`t really expect anything to come out of it. I mean, the idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn`t heard of. (On the Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
Tatyana Ali
His arrest is karma. It`s really sad when people have to put everybody else down to make themselves look good. The guy`s digging himself a grave, and soon he`s not gonna have any friends. - Chris Kirkpatrick, on rapper Eminem, who slams N`Sync on his sing...
Chris Kirkpatrick
It`s a whole different thing being an actor. A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. You make yourself a different person. You become a different person.
Will Smith
I think he`s got [guts] for saying what he said. People get way too worked up about that stuff instead of just enjoying it. - On rapper Eminem and his music.
Ashton Kutcher
[regarding his Underworld character Raze] Because the way modern movie-making sensibilities are concerned, if you don`t have a name, then who are you? We didn`t want to make the part too big, because if we did, they`d get a rapper like LL Cool J. He`s goo...
Kevin Grevioux
People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven`t been out in a while, maybe you should get today`s hottest producer or rapper to do something.
Pras Michel
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
James Caan
Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut zitieren könnenwie Mos Def [Schauspieler und Rapper, Anm.d.Red.]. Die Wahrheit und das Bewahren des Schönen ist ein klarer Hinweis darauf, dass man leben...
Andrew Wessels
[Mills said Combs abruptly ended the interview when asked to comment about allegations that he contributed to the 1997 shooting death of fellow rapper Notorious B.I.G. , whose real name was Christopher Wallace. The case remains unsolved. Combs` album] No ...
Christopher Wallace
You know it`s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley
