During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams — Tupac Shakur
Damn right I like the life I live,
Cause I went from negative to positive. — The Notorious B.I.G.
Am I really just a narcissist,
Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? — Rick Ross
Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer — Nas
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. — Joe Budden
Here I go, deep type flow,
Jacques Cousteau could never get this low. — Ol' Dirty Bastard
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death. — Nas
For every single dark night there is a brighter day. — Tupac Shakur
Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive. — Kanye West
Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half. — Talib Kweli
I got mouths to feed,
Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed. — GZA
Life without knowledge is death in disguise. — Talib Kweli
It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. — Drake
She live in a mindset that I could never move to — Drake
I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. — Kanye West
Motivational Rap Quotes
I might rap about a lot of stuff, but that’s just a reflection about what I’ve been through. But in real life, everything I do is positive. — 21 Savage
We all tried rapping, we all tried singing, we all tried different kinds of styles and performances, so we naturally found our perfect spot. — Lisa Manoban
It’s really important for me to show kids that there are other ways to get rich beyond rapping. — 21 Savage
I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up — Michael Phelps
Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don’t have that microphone or who can’t rap. — Jay-Z
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way. — Jay-Z
The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs because I've never had any desire to rap. My love of hip-hop is driven by my love of rappers, but it was built out of my love of producers. — James Vincent McMorrow
The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world. — Killer Mike
Funny Rap Quotes
You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game. — Eminem
Life is a gamble, we scramble for money,
I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny. — Prodigy
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up. — Dave Barry
You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. — Tupac Shakur
With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em. — Young Jeezy
It was Saturday night and I was feelin kinda funny,
Gold around my neck, pockets full of money. — Schoolly D
Rappers on their sophomores...actin' like they boss lords.
Fame's such a funny thing for sure when niggas start believing all those encores. — Pusha T
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. — Tom Robbins
It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills. — Tori Spelling
Inspirational Rap Quotes
If the truth is told, the youth can grow
Then learn to survive until they gain control
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes
Read more learn more, change the globe — Nas
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. — Unknown Author
Sky is the limit and you know that you keep on,
Just keep on pressin on.
Sky is the limit and you know that you can have
what you want, be what you want. — The Notorious B.I.G.
Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away. — T.I.
Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by,
That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky. — Ludacris
But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up — Tupac Shakur
Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth.
Motherf--. I, will, not, lose. — Jay-Z
Everything is everything
What is meant to be, will be
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually — Lauryn Hill
If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for — Drake
If you are what you say you are
A superstar
Then have no fear
The camera's is here
and the microphones and they wanna know
Oh oh oh oh yeah
If you are what you say you are
Then have no fear — Lupe Fiasco
Good Rap Quotes
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop. — Phife Dawg
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others — G-Dragon
Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke. — Tupac Shakur
I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
But my life been good since I started finding peace. — Nas
Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford! — KRS-One
It has no color to it. If you can rap good, you can rap good. I look at Mac Miller, who’s one of my homies, and I look at Wiz Khalifa, who’s one of my homies, and I don’t look at Mac different because he’s white. He’s my homie. — Big Sean
Damn it feels good to see people up on it. — Biz Markie
Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life — Drake
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. — Bruce Dickinson
I want a girl with extensions in her hair,
Bamboo earrings, at least two pair,
A Fendi bag and a bad attitude,
That's all I need to get me in a good mood.
She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang,
I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing. — LL Cool J
Best Rap Quotes
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. — Eminem
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. — Jay-Z
I really like LIMP BIZKIT. I mean, I've said it for years - I don't know if anyone actually hears it - but I think LIMP BIZKIT are an awesome band. In terms of the rap-rock bands, or ANY bands out there, I think they really are truly among the best. — Lars Ulrich
Beef is best served like steak:
Well done, get a gun in ya face. — Pusha T
I never fronted, you can get it if you want it...
Won't say I'm the best, but I'm not that far from it. — Lord Finesse
Lyrical lecture, word architecture,
Rap director, the best in my sector.
Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech...
I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf. — Lord Finesse
Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up. — Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils. — Jay-Z
Golly, he's just a pest and your worst best friend,
Who mend and rip space-time fabric like polyester blend. — Daniel Dumile
I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless. You've got to rap over the beat, or you've got to color within your canvas. You pick the canvas size first. That makes most sense to me. — Riz Ahmed
Rap Song Quotes
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. — Phife Dawg
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. — KRS-One
Those who are heartless, once cared too much. — Frank Ocean
I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it — Macklemore
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long! — Kendrick Lamar
You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me. — Too $hort
There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate. — Maajid Nawaz
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin. — Drake
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy. — Tupac Shakur
But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam — Drake
Rap Music Quotes
I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time. — Chance the Rapper
Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world. — Chance the Rapper
I'm just an addict, addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it. — Rakim
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life. — Young Thug
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. — Eminem
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot. — Jackie Collins
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. — Jasper Fforde
That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles. — Dave Koz
Music just ain't what it used to;
We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to. — Jadakiss
Gangsta Rap Quotes
Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes. — Tupac Shakur
Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns. — Sean Price
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands. — Shane West
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. — Alan Vega
I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me. — Tupac Shakur
I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave,
to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay — DJ Quik
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won't come from conscious rap. — Bocafloja
Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. — Freddie Gibbs
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. — Jackson Katz
Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta! — Willie D
Rap Artist Quotes
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
On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark — Big L
I get physical, mystical, very artistical...
Giving party people something funky to listen to. — Big Daddy Kane
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
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
Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel,
Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table. — GZA
I'm caught up in the system where the blind lead the blind
And this artist only speaks on the Signs of the Time.
And I pop pills in Purple Rain to state my pain,
They say I'm just like my father, bold and too cold. — Beanie Sigel
I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it`s like to be real and the social ills that we face, if you aren`t backing Bernie Sanders, I have to question your credibility in terms of do you mean the songs you`re writing. — Killer Mike
You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them. — Meek Mill
Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever. — Nas
What you base your happiness around?
Material, women, and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major. — Nas
Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists. — Kendrick Lamar
They say time is money but really it's not
If we ever go broke, then time is all we got
And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back — J. Cole
And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest. — Kendrick Lamar
I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now,
If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down. — J. Cole
Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you. — Phife Dawg
So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never,
Because the dance with the devil might last you forever. — Immortal Technique
Real gs move in silence like lasagna. — Lil Wayne
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