Rap Quotes about Inspirational Life, Love and Success

Rap Quotes: Best Rap Quotes about Song Lyrics, Life, Love, and Success

In This Article, we shared the Quotes of Rap about the Song Lyrics, Life, and Success. Because Rap quotes and Song lyrics are much enjoyable as powerful the Rap Quotes Collection will inspire you and make you an energetic person if you’re Rap and Music Love by Heart.

So, let’s look at some best rap quotes collection about Love Life, and Success.

“Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.” — Machine Gun Kelly
“Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.” — Kid Cudi
“Never mind what hater says, ignore ’em till they fade away.” — T. I.
“Remember one thing through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out. Keep your head up, and handle it.” — Tupac
“Remind yourself, nobody’s built like you. You design yourself.” — Jay Z
“Stop lookin’ at what you ain’t got, and start being thankful for what you do got.” — T.I
“Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.” — Lil Wayne
“The sooner you realize things will never be the same, the sooner you can move on.” — Kid Cudi
“You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.” — Eminem
“You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.” — Nas

“Cherish these nights, cherish these people. Life is a movie, but there’ll never be a sequel.” — Nicki Minaj
“Damn right I like the life I live because I went from negative to positive.” — Notorious B.I.G.
“Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” — Ice Cube
“Every saint got a past, every sinner got a future. Every loser gotta win, and every winner gotta lose someday.” — J Cole
“Everybody’s at war with different things, I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” — Tupac
“How can the sky be the limit when there’re footprints on the moon?” — Logic, Young Sinatra II
“If you can’t do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?” — Kid Cudi
“No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool’s best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it.” — Carlos Wallace
“Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.” — Kanye West
“Why do we try so hard to fit in, when we were born to stand out?” — Machine Gun Kelly

“Cause whatever you love can be taken away, so live like it’s your dying day.” — Machine Gun Kelly
“Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.” — 2Pac
“Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.” — Wiz Khalifa
“Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.” — Rick Ross
“For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.” — Tupac
“Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.” — Rick Ross
“Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.” — Tupac
“Love yourself and your expression, you can’t go wrong.” — KRS-One
“They’re gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.” — Mac Miller
“Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.” — Wiz Khalifa
“You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.” — Eminem
“You gotta be able to smile through the bullshit.” — Tupac
“You might not have a car or big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.” — Snoop Dogg

“Cocaine trafficking, your boy’s back again, Moving bricks like I got a degree in scaffolding. Fucking with some cats from Newark…half of them Jewish, Cool white boys riding around, blasting my music, And I’m taxin’ them like Jackson-Hewitt.” — Ghostface Killah
“Dope is like a two-way street; the addiction, both you and me, now take a seat. Every car got a fleet, every broad get a Jeep, every sparkle in the club that wasn’t ours, we compete. Poor minds, poor decision-makers; No reward…then what’s the risk you take?” — Pusha T, M.P.A. King Push
“Got the new Hummer in the summer when, I was a newcomer then, Drugs and Mac-10s, hugs from fake friends. Make ends; they hate you, Be broke, girls won’t date you.” — Notorious B.I.G.
“I’ll ignore you selling crack, killing people, and keeping it real, But disrespect me and my adopted fam and die young like veal.” — El-P
“My first offense was possession of weed, now I’m in the major leagues, and That muthafucka Bill Clinton is a son of a bitch; Had the nerve to throw out the first pitch. I’m just tryin’ to get rich like Trump, the home run king is now in a slump…pass me a hunk. How the fuck can I stay out the Pen, When its 1-2-3 strikes, you in?” — Ice Cube
“Reporting live from the project benches; Hella caine, dope in cellophane, dirty syringes, Heroin zombies street-walking on three-week binges. Clientele look like the Thriller vid in 3D lenses.” — Beanie Sigel
“Thanks to Reaganomics, prisons turned to profits, Cause free labor is the cornerstone of US economics. Slavery was abolished unless you are in prison. Do you think I am bullshitting? Then read the 13th Amendment. Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits. That’s why they giving drug offenders time in double digits.” — Killer Mike
“The motto goes Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll. I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.” — Zev Love X aka MF Doom
“We still wading in the water…Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water. Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father, Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver. Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler, Tell ‘em talk is cheap…niggas living for the dollar.” — Vince Staples

“Get rich or die trying.” — 50 Cent
“I like when money makes a difference but don’t make you different.” —Drake
“I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.” — Eminem
“I want the finer things in my life, so I hustle.” — 50 Cent
“If it ain’t making me money, making me better or making me happy… ain’t making time for it.” — 50 Cent
“Money on my mind, money is all I think of.” — Lil Wayne
“Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless Snakes slither in the grass spineless.” — Eminem
“You know it’s funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” — 2Pac

“Everyone has an addiction. Mine happens to be you.” — Andre 3000
“Forgive but don’t forget girl, keep ya head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing don’t believe him, and if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.” — Tupac
“I like the person that you are, but I’m in love with the person that you have potential to be.” — Wale
“I love who you are, I love who you ain’t.” — Andre 3000
“I love you like a fat kid loves cake.” — 50 Cent
“I remember the love right after the fights. You can’t tell me you don’t remember those nights.” — Lil Wayne
“I wanted you to know, whenever you are around, can’t speak, I can’t speak.” — Childish Gambino
“I’ll give you all of me until there’s nothing left.” — Childish Gambino
“Ice melts into rain, love turns into pain. Here I go again, falling in love again.” — Wale
“If I had the moment, I’d capture that moment and you’d be right next to me.” — Chris Brown
“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” — Chris Brown
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.” — Drake
“Love is not just a verb, it’s you looking in the mirror.” — Kendrick Lamar
“One day you’re gonna remember me and how much I love you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” — Drake
“Rather lose love than to move on never knowing what it felt like.” — Wale
“The question isn’t do he loves ya the question is, do ya love yourself? You give the best advice to your friends and not take it for yourself.” —Big Sean
“The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most.” — Drake
“There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don’t know how.” — Childish Gambino

“Good things come in good time.” — Wiz Khalifa
“I am happy’. That’s just the saddest lie.” — Kid Cudi
“Life can always change, you have to adjust.” — Drake
“Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.” — Wale
“Only God can judge me, so I’m gone, either love me or leave me alone.” — Jay Z
“People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial.” — Nicki Minaj, Pills and Potions
“The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.” — Immortal Technique
“The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.” — Eminem
“We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.” — Drake
“When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.” — Eminem
“Women are the most beautiful yet difficult beings known to man.” — Lil Wayne

“Although rap is about boasting, it’s also about honesty and expressing your emotions.” — Keith Stanfield
“I am obsessed with rap music – it’s such a big part of my life.” — Randall Park
“I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.” — Kanye West
“I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.” — Anderson East
“Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion? The soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing.” — Kanye West
“My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.” — Mystikal
“Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.” — Jay-Z
“Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.” — Kurt Cobain
“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.” — Eminem
“Well, hip hop is what makes the world go round.” — Snoop Dogg

“I’ll be your best friend if you promise you’ll be mine.” — 50 Cent
“If you admire someone, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.” — Kanye West
“It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none.” — Snoop Dogg
“Next time you see a brother down, Stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.” — Grand Puba
“Pay attention to whom your energy increases and decreases around. That’s the universe giving you a hint of who you should embrace and who you should keep away from.” — Diddy
“Some of y’all is not where you want to be in life. Yet you party every weekend. What exactly are you celebrating?” — T.I
“Sometimes if you’re lucky, someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill.” — Snoop Dogg
“Whenever you need my help, I will hold you down.” — Childish Gambino
“You don’t need too many people to be happy. Just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are.” — Wiz Khalifa

“Don’t let the sadness from the past and the fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.” — Wiz Khalifa
“Fight for your rights, stand up, and be heard. You’re just as good as any man, believe that, word.” — Salt N Pepa
“Jump regardless of the consequence, cause even on the night of the apocalypse, everybody’s an optimist.” — Tonedeff
“My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.” — Kendrick Lamar
“Never let a couple of good memories make you move backwards. Look ahead and move on.” — Chris Brown
“No law’s gonna change us, we have to change us.” — Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
“People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it’s actually the good ones that drive you insane.” — Kid Cudi
“Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.” — Snoop Dogg
“Sometimes it’s hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart, and hope it all goes well.” — Mac Miller
“We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.” — Biggie Smalls
“You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” — Snoop Dogg

• “Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem. Baby girl, respect is just a minimum.” — Lauryn Hill
• “Hey Bonita, glad to meet ya, For the kind of stunning newness, I must have foreseen ya. Hey, being with you is a top priority, Ain’t no need to question the authority.” — A Tribe Called Quest
• “I reminisce over my ghetto princess every day.” — Lost Boyz
• “I’m willing to go the extra kilometer just to see my senorita get her pillow. On the side of my bed where no girl ever stayed.” — Outkast
• “Please don’t worry ’bout the women I have been with, No engagement can amount to your friendship.” — Lil Wayne
• “She the queen in my life, and I’mma make sure she gon’ shine again, She taught me everything.” — Snoop Dogg
• “Take it from a man that loves what you got and baby girl you’re a star, don’t let ’em tell you you’re not.” — J. Cole ft TLC
• “Then Whit told me, ‘A woman is woman, love the creation.’ It all came from God, then you was my confirmation.” — Kendrick Lamar ft Rapsody
• “To my beautiful sister I heard you wanna be a singer. Well anything’s possible. You’re too young for them boys. So, stay focused and follow your dreams. Trust me anything’s possible.” — Remy Banks
• “Tryna get next to her, gotta be yaself mayne, Cause she got her own money she don’t need no help maybe.” — Webbie ft Lil Boosie and Lil Phat
• “We are the ones that give birth to the generations of prophets because it’s ladies first.” — Queen Latifah ft Monie Love
• “Whatever she lacks, I’m right over her shoulder, When I’m off track, mami is keeping me focused.” — Jay Z
• “Women you’re great, on behalf of men, Thanks, I’m glad to be a part of your ranks. If you accept me, women.” — Heems
• “Word up mommy, I love you.” — Ghost face Killah ft Mary J. Blige
• “You screaming at the racist cops in Miami was probably. The highlight of my life, like Ha, yo, look at my wife.” — Nas
• “You spark my interest. No m’aam I don’t know you, just offerin’ the common respect I feel, I owe you. Also, some conversation, companionship, common ground and common sense.” — Goodie Mob
• “430 Lex with convertible top, and the rims keeps spinning every time I stop, got a Superman Benz that I scored from Shaq, With an old school Caddy with a diamond in the back.” — Big Tymers
• “And then you’re in the man from MarsYou go out at night, eatin’ carsYou eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too.” — Mercurys and Suburus Blondie
• “And when I’m long gone, whole crew sing a swan song. Cause we all just ticking time bombs, got a Lambo like LeBron’s mom.” — Childish Gambino
• “I drive the Phantom off the lawn, my neighbors think I’m LeBron, Diamonds in my charm, white b*shes on my arm.” — Juicy J
• “I got bodyguards, I got two big cars, that definitely ain’t the whack I got a Lincoln Continental and a sunroof Cadillac” — Sugar hill Gang
• “I put Lamborghini doors on that Escalade/low pro so low, look like I’m ridin’ on blades.” — The Game ft. 50 Cent
• “I’m in that purple Lam, lookin’ like some dirty Sprite, catchin’ passes, whippin’ birds, yeah, that Roddy White.” — Jeezy ft. Freddie Gibbs
• “Killin’ ya’ll niggas on that lyrical shit, Mayonnaise-colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips.” — Kanye West
• “My first name must be He Ain’t Shit Cause every time I’m in a car. Bitches be like, He ain’t shit!” — Redman
• “We still got a Acura but show time we be limoin” — Chiddy Bang
• “Be careful what you say to someone today. Because tomorrow they might not be here, and you can’t take it back.” — Wiz Khalifa
• “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are. While your reputation is what others merely think you are.” — Jay Z
• “Never assume you know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you heard it straight form the source.” — Chris Brown
• “Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.” — DMX
• “Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it’s in your gut, your soul, there’s nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.” — Kanye West
• “Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.” — Lil Wayne
• “You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.” — Nas
• “A goal is just a dream with a deadline.” — Drake
• “I can see you’re sad even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes.” —Eminem
• “I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell, I am a hustler baby, I’ll sell water to a well.” — Jay Z
• “I’d shoot for the moon but I’m too busy gazing at stars.” — Eminem
• “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!” — Jay-Z
• “My mama always used to tell me: if you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.” — Tupac
• “People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.” — Eminem
• “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” — Tupac Shakur
• “Sunny days wouldn’t be so special, if it wasn’t for rain. Joy wouldn’t feel so good, if it wasn’t for pain.” — 50 Cent
• “When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.” — Drake
• “A goal is just a dream with a deadline.” – Drake
• “A man who treats his woman like a princess is proof that he has been born and raised in the arms of a queen.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.” – Jay-Z, Decoded
• “All I do is win win win no matter what.” – DJ Khaled
• “All of my kindness, is taken for weakness.” – Kanye West
• “And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.” – Paul Beatty, The Sellout
• “And the land of the free is full of free loaders, leave us dead in the street to be your organ donors.” – Joey Bada$$, Land of the Free
• “As a wise lady once said, love the skin you’re in cause beauty has no rules. If they’re tryna sell an impossible dream to a fool, then you ain’t the fool to buy one.” – Skepta, Somebody’s Everything
• “Be careful what you say to someone today. Because tomorrow they might not be here, and you can’t take it back.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are. While your reputation is what others merely think you are.” – Jay Z
• “Believe in your flyness, conquer your shyness.” – Kanye West
• “Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.” – Biggie Smalls
• “But to live doesn’t mean you’re alive.” – Nicki Minaj
• “Can’t forget that I’m golden, can’t forget where I’m going.” – A$AP Rocky
• “Cherish these nights, cherish these people. Life is a movie, but there’ll never be a sequel.” – Nicki Minaj, All Things Go
• “Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption. For the sins committed before revelation.” – Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow
• “Damn right I like the life I live because I went from negative to positive.” – Biggie Smalls
• “Dead Prez is playing on the car’s stereo, telling me that it’s bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ.” – Kris Kidd, I Can’t Feel My Face
• “Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” – Ice Cube
• “Don’t fall for fake people. They’re often disguised as people close to you.” – Big Les
• “Don’t let the sadness from the past and the fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Eminem tells stories in such a powerful and distinctive way . That’s very necessary today, when reality is becoming a lost art.” – Fuad Alakbarov, Exodus
• “Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.” – 2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up
• “Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.”–2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up
• “Even tough you-re fed up, you gotta keep your head up.” – Tupac
• “Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Every saint got a past; every sinner got a future. Every loser gotta win, and every winner gotta lose someday.” – J Cole, Deja Vu
• “Everybody’s at war with different things, I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” – Tupac
• “Everyday is a new opportunity to reach that goal.” – Rick Ross
• “Everyone has an addiction. Mine happens to be you.” – Andre 3000
• “Fight for your rights, stand up and be heard. You’re just as good as any man, believe that, word.” – Salt N Pepa, Ain’t Nuthing But A She Thang
• “For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.” – Tupac
• “God will take you through hell, just to get to heaven.” – T.I
• “Good things come in good time.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Got so many chains they call me Chaining Tatum.” – Drake
• “Hopeful dreams – even where crack kings’ and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars once the mic is gripped and the bars are spit.” – F. Hodge, From Within I Rise
• “How far must you go to gain respect? Um… Well, it’s kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you’ll be crazy sad and alone.” – Q-Tip, Check the Rhime
• “How many people you bless, is how you measure success.” – Rick Ross
• “How you look so perfect on your worst days?” — A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, “Swervin”
• “I am happy’. That’s just the saddest lie.” – Kid Cudi, Soundtrack 2 My Life
• “I be there for you, I will care for you.” – Drake
• “I been laughed at, hated on, no one would even play my songs. Wouldn’t even listen to anything that my name was on.” – Mac Miller
• “I believe there’s a God above me, I’m just the god of everything else.” – Pusha T
• “I can make your Mondays even better like the weekend.”— Travis Scott
• “I can see you’re sad even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes.”–Eminem, Mockingbird
• “I cannot see heaven being much better than this.” – Drake
• “I don’t dance now, I make money moves.” – Cardi B
• “I don’t like thugs, I don’t like nerds, I don’t like myself and I hate bein’ disturbed.” – Sean Price, “Critically Acclaimed
• “I don’t make songs for free, I make ’em for freedom.” – Chance The Rapper
• “I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.”- 2 Chainz
• “I get those goosebumps every time you come around. You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine.”— Travis Scott
• “I go on and on. Can’t understand how I last so long.” – TOO $HORT
• “I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto; çuz where else in death do I get to go?” – Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow
• “I like when money makes a difference but don’t make you different.”–Drake, From Time
• “I look for ways to say ‘I love you’ But I ain’t into makin’ love songs.”— A$AP Rocky
• “I never sleep ‘cuz sleep is the cousin of death.” – Nas
• “I remember the love right after the fights. You can’t tell me you don’t remember those nights.” – Lil Wayne
• “I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.” – Eminem
• “I wanna tell the world about you just so they can get jealous And if you see her ‘fore I do tell her I wish that I met her.”— Future
• “I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They’re remarkable. Nobody’s ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.” – Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book
• “I’ll be your best friend if you promise you’ll be mine.” – 50 Cent
• “I’m a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!”― Jay-Z
• “I’m also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.” – Azealia Banks
• “I’m an ordinary person but I’m paid.” – Lil Boosie
• “I’m doing pretty good as far as geniuses go.” – Kanye West
• “I’m just making music. Hip-hop, like all music, is a good thing. I could use it for evil by filling it with violence and misogyny and profanity. Or I can use it to glorify God.” – Lecrae Moore, Unashamed
• “I’m my own competition, I’m competing with myself.” – Cardi B
• “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”― Jay-Z
• “I’m too loyal and too focused to be losing and be hopeless” – Tyga
• “I’ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin’, I’ma smile back.” –
• “Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem. Baby girl, respect is just a minimum.” — Lauryn Hill
• “Hey Bonita, glad to meet ya, For the kind of stunning newness, I must have foreseen ya. Hey, being with you is a top priority, Ain’t no need to question the authority.” — A Tribe Called Quest
• “I reminisce over my ghetto princess every day.” — Lost Boyz
• “I’m willing to go the extra kilometer just to see my senorita get her pillow. On the side of my bed where no girl ever stayed.” — Outkast
• “Please don’t worry ’bout the women I have been with, No engagement can amount to your friendship.” — Lil Wayne
• “She the queen in my life, and I’mma make sure she gon’ shine again, She taught me everything.” — Snoop Dogg
• “Take it from a man that loves what you got and baby girl you’re a star, don’t let ’em tell you you’re not.” — J. Cole ft TLC
• “Then Whit told me, ‘A woman is woman, love the creation.’ It all came from God, then you was my confirmation.” — Kendrick Lamar ft Rapsody
• “To my beautiful sister I heard you wanna be a singer. Well anything’s possible. You’re too young for them boys. So, stay focused and follow your dreams. Trust me anything’s possible.” — Remy Banks
• “Tryna get next to her, gotta be yaself mayne, Cause she got her own money she don’t need no help maybe.” — Webbie ft Lil Boosie and Lil Phat
• “We are the ones that give birth to the generations of prophets because it’s ladies first.” — Queen Latifah ft Monie Love
• “Whatever she lacks, I’m right over her shoulder, When I’m off track, mami is keeping me focused.” — Jay Z
• “Women you’re great, on behalf of men, Thanks, I’m glad to be a part of your ranks. If you accept me, women.” — Heems
• “Word up mommy, I love you.” — Ghost face Killah ft Mary J. Blige
• “You screaming at the racist cops in Miami was probably. The highlight of my life, like Ha, yo, look at my wife.” — Nas
• “You spark my interest. No m’aam I don’t know you, just offerin’ the common respect I feel, I owe you. Also, some conversation, companionship, common ground and common sense.” — Goodie Mob
• “430 Lex with convertible top, and the rims keeps spinning every time I stop, got a Superman Benz that I scored from Shaq, With an old school Caddy with a diamond in the back.” — Big Tymers
• “And then you’re in the man from MarsYou go out at night, eatin’ carsYou eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too.” — Mercurys and Suburus Blondie
• “And when I’m long gone, whole crew sing a swan song. Cause we all just ticking time bombs, got a Lambo like LeBron’s mom.” — Childish Gambino
• “I drive the Phantom off the lawn, my neighbors think I’m LeBron, Diamonds in my charm, white b*shes on my arm.” — Juicy J
• “I got bodyguards, I got two big cars, that definitely ain’t the whack I got a Lincoln Continental and a sunroof Cadillac” — Sugar hill Gang
• “I put Lamborghini doors on that Escalade/low pro so low, look like I’m ridin’ on blades.” — The Game ft. 50 Cent
• “I’m in that purple Lam, lookin’ like some dirty Sprite, catchin’ passes, whippin’ birds, yeah, that Roddy White.” — Jeezy ft. Freddie Gibbs
• “Killin’ ya’ll niggas on that lyrical shit, Mayonnaise-colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips.” — Kanye West
• “My first name must be He Ain’t Shit Cause every time I’m in a car. Bitches be like, He ain’t shit!” — Redman
• “We still got a Acura but show time we be limoin” — Chiddy Bang
• “Be careful what you say to someone today. Because tomorrow they might not be here, and you can’t take it back.” — Wiz Khalifa
• “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are. While your reputation is what others merely think you are.” — Jay Z
• “Never assume you know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you heard it straight form the source.” — Chris Brown
• “Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.” — DMX
• “Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it’s in your gut, your soul, there’s nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.” — Kanye West
• “Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.” — Lil Wayne
• “You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.” — Nas
• “A goal is just a dream with a deadline.” — Drake
• “I can see you’re sad even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes.” —Eminem
• “I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell, I am a hustler baby, I’ll sell water to a well.” — Jay Z
• “I’d shoot for the moon but I’m too busy gazing at stars.” — Eminem
• “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!” — Jay-Z
• “My mama always used to tell me: if you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.” — Tupac
• “People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.” — Eminem
• “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” — Tupac Shakur
• “Sunny days wouldn’t be so special, if it wasn’t for rain. Joy wouldn’t feel so good, if it wasn’t for pain.” — 50 Cent
• “When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.” — Drake
• “A goal is just a dream with a deadline.” – Drake
• “A man who treats his woman like a princess is proof that he has been born and raised in the arms of a queen.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.” – Jay-Z, Decoded
• “All I do is win win win no matter what.” – DJ Khaled
• “All of my kindness, is taken for weakness.” – Kanye West
• “And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.” – Paul Beatty, The Sellout
• “And the land of the free is full of free loaders, leave us dead in the street to be your organ donors.” – Joey Bada$$, Land of the Free
• “As a wise lady once said, love the skin you’re in cause beauty has no rules. If they’re tryna sell an impossible dream to a fool, then you ain’t the fool to buy one.” – Skepta, Somebody’s Everything
• “Be careful what you say to someone today. Because tomorrow they might not be here, and you can’t take it back.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are. While your reputation is what others merely think you are.” – Jay Z
• “Believe in your flyness, conquer your shyness.” – Kanye West
• “Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.” – Biggie Smalls
• “But to live doesn’t mean you’re alive.” – Nicki Minaj
• “Can’t forget that I’m golden, can’t forget where I’m going.” – A$AP Rocky
• “Cherish these nights, cherish these people. Life is a movie, but there’ll never be a sequel.” – Nicki Minaj, All Things Go
• “Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption. For the sins committed before revelation.” – Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow
• “Damn right I like the life I live because I went from negative to positive.” – Biggie Smalls
• “Dead Prez is playing on the car’s stereo, telling me that it’s bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ.” – Kris Kidd, I Can’t Feel My Face
• “Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” – Ice Cube
• “Don’t fall for fake people. They’re often disguised as people close to you.” – Big Les
• “Don’t let the sadness from the past and the fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Eminem tells stories in such a powerful and distinctive way . That’s very necessary today, when reality is becoming a lost art.” – Fuad Alakbarov, Exodus
• “Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.” – 2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up
• “Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.”–2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up
• “Even tough you-re fed up, you gotta keep your head up.” – Tupac
• “Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Every saint got a past; every sinner got a future. Every loser gotta win, and every winner gotta lose someday.” – J Cole, Deja Vu
• “Everybody’s at war with different things, I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” – Tupac
• “Everyday is a new opportunity to reach that goal.” – Rick Ross
• “Everyone has an addiction. Mine happens to be you.” – Andre 3000
• “Fight for your rights, stand up and be heard. You’re just as good as any man, believe that, word.” – Salt N Pepa, Ain’t Nuthing But A She Thang
• “For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.” – Tupac
• “God will take you through hell, just to get to heaven.” – T.I
• “Good things come in good time.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Got so many chains they call me Chaining Tatum.” – Drake
• “Hopeful dreams – even where crack kings’ and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars once the mic is gripped and the bars are spit.” – F. Hodge, From Within I Rise
• “How far must you go to gain respect? Um… Well, it’s kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you’ll be crazy sad and alone.” – Q-Tip, Check the Rhime
• “How many people you bless, is how you measure success.” – Rick Ross
• “How you look so perfect on your worst days?” — A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, “Swervin”
• “I am happy’. That’s just the saddest lie.” – Kid Cudi, Soundtrack 2 My Life
• “I be there for you, I will care for you.” – Drake
• “I been laughed at, hated on, no one would even play my songs. Wouldn’t even listen to anything that my name was on.” – Mac Miller
• “I believe there’s a God above me, I’m just the god of everything else.” – Pusha T
• “I can make your Mondays even better like the weekend.”— Travis Scott
• “I can see you’re sad even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes.”–Eminem, Mockingbird
• “I cannot see heaven being much better than this.” – Drake
• “I don’t dance now, I make money moves.” – Cardi B
• “I don’t like thugs, I don’t like nerds, I don’t like myself and I hate bein’ disturbed.” – Sean Price, “Critically Acclaimed
• “I don’t make songs for free, I make ’em for freedom.” – Chance The Rapper
• “I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.”- 2 Chainz
• “I get those goosebumps every time you come around. You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine.”— Travis Scott
• “I go on and on. Can’t understand how I last so long.” – TOO $HORT
• “I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto; çuz where else in death do I get to go?” – Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow
• “I like when money makes a difference but don’t make you different.”–Drake, From Time
• “I look for ways to say ‘I love you’ But I ain’t into makin’ love songs.”— A$AP Rocky
• “I never sleep ‘cuz sleep is the cousin of death.” – Nas
• “I remember the love right after the fights. You can’t tell me you don’t remember those nights.” – Lil Wayne
• “I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.” – Eminem
• “I wanna tell the world about you just so they can get jealous And if you see her ‘fore I do tell her I wish that I met her.”— Future
• “I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They’re remarkable. Nobody’s ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.” – Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book
• “I’ll be your best friend if you promise you’ll be mine.” – 50 Cent
• “I’m a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!”― Jay-Z
• “I’m also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.” – Azealia Banks
• “I’m an ordinary person but I’m paid.” – Lil Boosie
• “I’m doing pretty good as far as geniuses go.” – Kanye West
• “I’m just making music. Hip-hop, like all music, is a good thing. I could use it for evil by filling it with violence and misogyny and profanity. Or I can use it to glorify God.” – Lecrae Moore, Unashamed
• “I’m my own competition, I’m competing with myself.” – Cardi B
• “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”― Jay-Z
• “I’m too loyal and too focused to be losing and be hopeless” – Tyga
• “I’ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin’, I’ma smile back.” – Mac Miller
• “I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “If I had the moment, I’d capture that moment and you’d be right next to me.” – Chris Brown
• “If it ain’t making me money, making me better or making me happy… ain’t making time for it.” – 50 Cent
• “If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.” – Eminem
• “If you admire someone, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.” – Kanye West
• “If you are what you say you are, a superstar…… then have no fear, the camera’s here.” – Lupe Fiasco
• “If you don’t love me somebody else will.” – Lil Wayne
• “If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.” – Biggie Smalls
• “Interview from the Spear-“People are so suprised when they find out I’m a rapper cause I don’t always show that “swag” but when they here my raps they’re like ‘damn! Yeah there goes CHI-T.’ But I seriously love rap and hip-hop rapping is in my veins.” – Chiara Elena ‘CHI-T‘
• “Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion? The soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing.” – Kanye West, Gorgeous
• “It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none. ” ― Snoop Dogg
• “It seems like blessings keep falling in my lap.” — Chance the Rapper, “Blessings”
• “It’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success.” – J. Cole
• “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Chris Brown
• “It’s only human to express the way you really feel, but that same humanity is my Achilles’ heel. A leopard can’t change his spots and never will; So, I’m forever I’ll, now I can never chill.” – Black Thought
• “Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans.” – Dean Cavanagh
• “Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.” – Drake, Over My Dead Body
• “Jump regardless of the consequence, cause even on the night of the apocalypse, everybody’s an optimist.” – Tonedeff, Optimist
• “Kept breaking promises you said you would keep, so you can leave a message at the beep.” – Mac Miller
• “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
• “Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.” – Tupac
• “Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight.” — Drake, “The Real Her”
• “Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.” – Kid Cudi
• “Living well eliminates the need for revenge.” – Kanye West
• “Love is not just a verb, it’s you looking in the mirror.” – Kendrick Lamar, Poetic Justice
• “Love me or hate me, I stay hate free. They say we learn from mistakes well that’s why they mistake me.” – Lil Wayne
• “Me and my people break bread, sit and smoke The conversation rich, but that depend on what you consider broke” – Talib Kweli
• “Memories have to be our most painful blessing.” – Kanye West
• “Money and power don’t change you, they just further expose your true self.” – Jay Z
• “Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless
• “My biggest lesson is just, man: Whatever you do, own it. Know what you’re doing and know consequences before you do it. If you’re fine with the consequences, it’s nothing nobody can tell you. Never do something because somebody else made you do it.” – Andre 3000
• “My cares come from a very selfish place ’cause in reality I’m young, and I haven’t had the experience to be mature yet.” – Vince Staples
• “My life’s all I got and Heaven is all in my brain, and when I feel I’m in Hell my ideas are what get me through pain.” – Hopsin
• “My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding, and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.” – Busta Rhymes
• “My mama always used to tell me: if you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.” – Tupac
• “My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.” – Kendrick Lamar
• “My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don’t think we should have a music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I’ve said it. I’ve repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that’s more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.” – Wynton Marsalis
• “Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around — to defeat an opponent and lift you up.” – 50 Cent
• “Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like apologizing for being real.” – Lil Wayne
• “Never assume you know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you heard it straight form the source.” – Chris Brown
• “Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.” – DMX, It’s On
• “Never let a couple of good memories make you move backwards. Look ahead and move on.” – Chris Brown
• “Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it’s in your gut, your soul, there’s nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.” –Kanye West
• “Next time you see a brother down, stop and pick him up, cause you might be the next one stuck.” – Grand Puba, Mind Your Business
• “No law’s gonna change us, we have to change us.” – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Same Love
• “No matter how hard it gets stick your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.” — Tupac, “Me Against the World”
• “No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile.” – Mac Miller
• “No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool’s best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it.” – Carlos Wallace
• “Only God can judge me, so I’m gone, either love me or leave me alone.” – Jay Z
• “Pay attention to whom your energy increases and decreases around. That’s the universe giving you a hint of who you should embrace and who you should keep away from.” – Diddy
• “People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial.” – Nicki Minaj, Pills and Potions
• “Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.” – Unarine Ramaru
• “Rap Is More Damaging Than Confederate Statues” – Wynton Marsalis
• “Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live.” – KRS-One
• “Rap is supposed to motivate, humor, address societal issues and personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.” – Unarine Ramaru
• “Rap was always a pipe dream for me, but rap was all I had. Because really, what was I going to do with my life? I had a young daughter. Kim and I were always either getting evicted or our house was getting shot up or robbed.” – Eminem, The Way I Am
• “Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.” – Kanye West, Homecoming
• “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur
• “Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.” – Rick Ross
• “Remember one thing Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out. Keep your head up, and handle it.” – Tupac
• “Remind yourself, nobody’s built like you. You design yourself.” – Jay Z
• “Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk. Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run. Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly. So I’ma spread my wings, you can meet me in the sky.” – Jay Z, My President Is Black
• “Same kid’s went to Catholic school is dealers And same n_gga’s had no heart is now killers” – Ma$e
• “She said ‘where we goin?’ I said ‘the moon.’” — Travis Scott, “Sicko Mode”
• “Some nights I wish I could go back in life / Not to change s–t, just to feel a couple things twice.” – Drake
• “Something ’bout the pain makes me want more… done a lot of drugs, never felt like this before.” – Mac Miller
• “Sometimes if you’re lucky, someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill.” – Snoop Dogg
• “Sometimes it’s hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart, and hope it all goes well.” – Mac Miller
• “Sometimes you just gotta let s*** go and say ‘to hell with it’ and move on.” – Eminem
• “Somewhere down the road might just meet up at the right time.” – G-Eazy
• “Sorry it had to end this way but uh, it is what it is.” – Snoop Dogg
• “Stay far from timid. Only make moves when your heart’s in it. And live the phrase ‘sky’s the limit.’” — The Notorious B.I.G., “Sky’s the Limit”
• “Stop lookin’ at what you ain’t got, and start being thankful for what you do got.” – T.I.
• “Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.” – J. Cole
• “Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.” – Lil Wayne
• “The Great White Male is rap’s Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy.” – David Foster Wallace
• “The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.” – John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead
• “The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn’t get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.” – Drew
• “The plan was to drink until the pain’s over. But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?” – Kanye West, Dark Fantasy
• “The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So, I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.” – Immortal Technique
• “The question isn’t do he love ya the question is, do ya love yourself? You give the best advice to your friends and not take it for yourself.” – Big Sean, Jump Out the Window
• “The rhyme pad was a spell book – it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle
• “The sooner you realize things will never be the same, the sooner you can move on.” – Kid Cudi
• “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
• “The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most.” – Drake
• “There was nothing equal for my people in your math. You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads.” – Lupe Fiasco, Strange Fruition
• “They say love is the key. Somebody changed the lock.” – Lil Wayne
• “They say you can’t turn a bad girl good. But once a good girl’s gone bad, she’s bad forever.” – Jay Z
• “They see pictures, they say goals. I’m who they trying to be.” — Cardi B, “Bodak Yellow”
• “They’re gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.” – Mac Miller
• “This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.” – Laura Goode, Sister Mischief
• “We ain’t picture perfect but we worth the picture still.” – J. Cole
• “We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.” – Drake
• “We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.” – Biggie Smalls
• “Well, hip hop is what makes the world go round.” – Snoop Dogg
• “When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.” – F. Hodge, From Within I Rise
• “When I say or do something, I do it. I don’t give a damn what you think. I’m doing this for me.” — Eminem, “Not Afraid”
• “When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.” – Drake
• “When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.” – Dr. Dre
• “When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.” – Young Thug
• “With your phone out, gotta hit them angles” — Drake, “Nice for What”
• “Without order, nothing exists. Without chaos, nothing evolves.” – Jedi Mind Tricks, Heavy Metal Kings
• “Women are the most beautiful yet difficult beings known to man.” – Lil Wayne
• “Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.” – Jonathan Anthony Burkett
• “You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.” – Eminem
• “You can’t live your life on a bus…” – Donald Glover
• “You could be the king, but watch the queen conquer.” — Nicki Minaj, “Monster”
• “You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.” – Nas
• “You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight.” – Jay-Z
• “You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.” – Eminem
• “You might not have a car or big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.” – Snoop Dogg
• “You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.” – Eminem
• “You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” – Snoop Dogg
• “You’ve got to realize that the world’s a test, you can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You’ve got your life, and got your health, so quit procrastinating and push it yourself.” – Cee-Lo, In Due Time
• After you who’s last, it’s Doom, he’s the worst known” – MF DOOM
• Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. – Rick Ross
• I’m on the pursuit of happiness. I know everything that shines ain’t always gold. I’ll be fine once I get it, I’ll be good. – Kid Cudi
• Snakes slither in the grass spineless” – Eminem
• “I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “If I had the moment, I’d capture that moment and you’d be right next to me.” – Chris Brown
• “If it ain’t making me money, making me better or making me happy… ain’t making time for it.” – 50 Cent
• “If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.” – Eminem
• “If you admire someone, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.” – Kanye West
• “If you are what you say you are, a superstar…… then have no fear, the camera’s here.” – Lupe Fiasco
• “If you don’t love me somebody else will.” – Lil Wayne
• “If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.” – Biggie Smalls
• “Interview from the Spear-“People are so suprised when they find out I’m a rapper cause I don’t always show that “swag” but when they here my raps they’re like ‘damn! Yeah there goes CHI-T.’ But I seriously love rap and hip-hop rapping is in my veins.” – Chiara Elena ‘CHI-T‘
• “Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion? The soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing.” – Kanye West, Gorgeous
• “It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none. ” ― Snoop Dogg
• “It seems like blessings keep falling in my lap.” — Chance the Rapper, “Blessings”
• “It’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success.” – J. Cole
• “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Chris Brown
• “It’s only human to express the way you really feel, but that same humanity is my Achilles’ heel. A leopard can’t change his spots and never will; So, I’m forever I’ll, now I can never chill.” – Black Thought
• “Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans.” – Dean Cavanagh
• “Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.” – Drake, Over My Dead Body
• “Jump regardless of the consequence, cause even on the night of the apocalypse, everybody’s an optimist.” – Tonedeff, Optimist
• “Kept breaking promises you said you would keep, so you can leave a message at the beep.” – Mac Miller
• “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
• “Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.” – Tupac
• “Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight.” — Drake, “The Real Her”
• “Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.” – Kid Cudi
• “Living well eliminates the need for revenge.” – Kanye West
• “Love is not just a verb, it’s you looking in the mirror.” – Kendrick Lamar, Poetic Justice
• “Love me or hate me, I stay hate free. They say we learn from mistakes well that’s why they mistake me.” – Lil Wayne
• “Me and my people break bread, sit and smoke The conversation rich, but that depend on what you consider broke” – Talib Kweli
• “Memories have to be our most painful blessing.” – Kanye West
• “Money and power don’t change you, they just further expose your true self.” – Jay Z
• “Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless
• “My biggest lesson is just, man: Whatever you do, own it. Know what you’re doing and know consequences before you do it. If you’re fine with the consequences, it’s nothing nobody can tell you. Never do something because somebody else made you do it.” – Andre 3000
• “My cares come from a very selfish place ’cause in reality I’m young, and I haven’t had the experience to be mature yet.” – Vince Staples
• “My life’s all I got and Heaven is all in my brain, and when I feel I’m in Hell my ideas are what get me through pain.” – Hopsin
• “My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding, and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.” – Busta Rhymes
• “My mama always used to tell me: if you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.” – Tupac
• “My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.” – Kendrick Lamar
• “My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don’t think we should have a music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I’ve said it. I’ve repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that’s more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.” – Wynton Marsalis
• “Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around — to defeat an opponent and lift you up.” – 50 Cent
• “Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like apologizing for being real.” – Lil Wayne
• “Never assume you know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you heard it straight form the source.” – Chris Brown
• “Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.” – DMX, It’s On
• “Never let a couple of good memories make you move backwards. Look ahead and move on.” – Chris Brown
• “Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it’s in your gut, your soul, there’s nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.” –Kanye West
• “Next time you see a brother down, stop and pick him up, cause you might be the next one stuck.” – Grand Puba, Mind Your Business
• “No law’s gonna change us, we have to change us.” – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Same Love
• “No matter how hard it gets stick your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.” — Tupac, “Me Against the World”
• “No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile.” – Mac Miller
• “No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool’s best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it.” – Carlos Wallace
• “Only God can judge me, so I’m gone, either love me or leave me alone.” – Jay Z
• “Pay attention to whom your energy increases and decreases around. That’s the universe giving you a hint of who you should embrace and who you should keep away from.” – Diddy
• “People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial.” – Nicki Minaj, Pills and Potions
• “Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.” – Unarine Ramaru
• “Rap Is More Damaging Than Confederate Statues” – Wynton Marsalis
• “Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live.” – KRS-One
• “Rap is supposed to motivate, humor, address societal issues and personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.” – Unarine Ramaru
• “Rap was always a pipe dream for me, but rap was all I had. Because really, what was I going to do with my life? I had a young daughter. Kim and I were always either getting evicted or our house was getting shot up or robbed.” – Eminem, The Way I Am
• “Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.” – Kanye West, Homecoming
• “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur
• “Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.” – Rick Ross
• “Remember one thing Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out. Keep your head up, and handle it.” – Tupac
• “Remind yourself, nobody’s built like you. You design yourself.” – Jay Z
• “Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk. Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run. Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly. So I’ma spread my wings, you can meet me in the sky.” – Jay Z, My President Is Black
• “Same kid’s went to Catholic school is dealers And same n_gga’s had no heart is now killers” – Ma$e
• “She said ‘where we goin?’ I said ‘the moon.’” — Travis Scott, “Sicko Mode”
• “Some nights I wish I could go back in life / Not to change s–t, just to feel a couple things twice.” – Drake
• “Something ’bout the pain makes me want more… done a lot of drugs, never felt like this before.” – Mac Miller
• “Sometimes if you’re lucky, someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill.” – Snoop Dogg
• “Sometimes it’s hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart, and hope it all goes well.” – Mac Miller
• “Sometimes you just gotta let s*** go and say ‘to hell with it’ and move on.” – Eminem
• “Somewhere down the road might just meet up at the right time.” – G-Eazy
• “Sorry it had to end this way but uh, it is what it is.” – Snoop Dogg
• “Stay far from timid. Only make moves when your heart’s in it. And live the phrase ‘sky’s the limit.’” — The Notorious B.I.G., “Sky’s the Limit”
• “Stop lookin’ at what you ain’t got, and start being thankful for what you do got.” – T.I.
• “Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.” – J. Cole
• “Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.” – Lil Wayne
• “The Great White Male is rap’s Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy.” – David Foster Wallace
• “The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.” – John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead
• “The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn’t get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.” – Drew
• “The plan was to drink until the pain’s over. But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?” – Kanye West, Dark Fantasy
• “The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So, I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.” – Immortal Technique
• “The question isn’t do he love ya the question is, do ya love yourself? You give the best advice to your friends and not take it for yourself.” – Big Sean, Jump Out the Window
• “The rhyme pad was a spell book – it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle
• “The sooner you realize things will never be the same, the sooner you can move on.” – Kid Cudi
• “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
• “The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most.” – Drake
• “There was nothing equal for my people in your math. You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads.” – Lupe Fiasco, Strange Fruition
• “They say love is the key. Somebody changed the lock.” – Lil Wayne
• “They say you can’t turn a bad girl good. But once a good girl’s gone bad, she’s bad forever.” – Jay Z
• “They see pictures, they say goals. I’m who they trying to be.” — Cardi B, “Bodak Yellow”
• “They’re gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.” – Mac Miller
• “This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.” – Laura Goode, Sister Mischief
• “We ain’t picture perfect but we worth the picture still.” – J. Cole
• “We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.” – Drake
• “We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.” – Biggie Smalls
• “Well, hip hop is what makes the world go round.” – Snoop Dogg
• “When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.” – F. Hodge, From Within I Rise
• “When I say or do something, I do it. I don’t give a damn what you think. I’m doing this for me.” — Eminem, “Not Afraid”
• “When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.” – Drake
• “When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.” – Dr. Dre
• “When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.” – Young Thug
• “With your phone out, gotta hit them angles” — Drake, “Nice for What”
• “Without order, nothing exists. Without chaos, nothing evolves.” – Jedi Mind Tricks, Heavy Metal Kings
• “Women are the most beautiful yet difficult beings known to man.” – Lil Wayne
• “Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.” – Jonathan Anthony Burkett
• “You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.” – Eminem
• “You can’t live your life on a bus…” – Donald Glover
• “You could be the king, but watch the queen conquer.” — Nicki Minaj, “Monster”
• “You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.” – Nas
• “You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight.” – Jay-Z
• “You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.” – Eminem
• “You might not have a car or big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.” – Snoop Dogg
• “You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.” – Eminem
• “You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” – Snoop Dogg
• “You’ve got to realize that the world’s a test, you can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You’ve got your life, and got your health, so quit procrastinating and push it yourself.” – Cee-Lo, In Due Time
• After you who’s last, it’s Doom, he’s the worst known” – MF DOOM
• Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. – Rick Ross
• I’m on the pursuit of happiness. I know everything that shines ain’t always gold. I’ll be fine once I get it, I’ll be good. – Kid Cudi
• Snakes slither in the grass spineless” – Eminem