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The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke. -- Danny Brown
RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with. -- El DeBarge
If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem. -- KRS-One
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride? -- Talib Kweli
I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular; I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances me from other rap artists - I haven't met a lot of 'em. -- Vince Staples
As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family. -- KRS-One
It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition. -- Quavo
It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist. -- KRS-One
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honoured. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it. -- Tony Iommi
I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited. -- Stewart Copeland
... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country executives want. Rappers are like that too .. my words come from the street, and their words come from the street. That slicked-up pop stuff doesn't come from the street, it's all pre-fab... -- Toby Keith
If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that. -- KRS-One
I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos. -- Common
That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap. -- SonReal
I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it. -- Fetty Wap
I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it. -- Fetty Wap

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