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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Rapper

"Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Rapper

"One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Rapper

"Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Rapper

"But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing."

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Rodney King Civil Rights Activist
Rapper

"Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history."

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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
Rapper

"I mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more sexist or racist or homophobic than their parents. Certainly less, in all those cases, less homophobic or racist or sexist, and then less gangster than our government. It's stuff that people normally don't speak on, subjects they don't speak on, and ideas they kind of keep to themselves."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Rapper

"Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level."

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J. Cole Rapper, songwriter
Rapper

"I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
Rapper

"Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
Rapper

"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?"

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