1. “Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.” – Rick Ross
2. “If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.” -Snoop Dogg
3. 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
4. “Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.”–2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up
5. “Can’t forget that I’m golden, can’t forget where I’m going.” – A$AP Rocky
6. “I’m a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!”― Jay-Z
7. “You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” – Snoop Dogg
8. “Everyone has an addiction. Mine happens to be you.” – Andre 3000
9. “I would have so many friends if I held back the truth and just gave out compliments.” – Drake
10. “But to live doesn’t mean you’re alive.” – Nicki Minaj
11. “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
12. “Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.” – Rick Ross
13. “Nothing can stop me, I’m all the way up.” – Fat Joe
14. “You know he can’t save you, right? In the real world, that guy right there…he can’t save you.” – Lil Wayne
15. “Life without knowledge is death in disguise”
16. “Telling my business to kids I don’t even know,
17. “Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer… Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers…” – Big K.R.I.T.
18. “I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.” – Eminem
19. “People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.” – Kendrick Lamar
20. I am obsessed with rap music – it’s such a big part of my life. – Randall Park
21. “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”― Jay-Z
22. “I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.” – Dr. Dre
23. “I don’t make songs for free, I make ’em for freedom.” – Chance The Rapper
24. “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
25. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
26. “Life can always change, you have to adjust.” – Drake
27. “You don’t need too many people to be happy. Just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are.” – Wiz Khalifa
28. “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur
29. “Educate yourself, make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture.” – KRS-One
30. “I’ll give you all of me until nothing is left.” – Childish Gambino
31. “I’d rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately try to be something I’m really not; just to fit in.” – Immortal Technique
32. “Live your life, live it right. Be different, do different things.” – Kendrick Lamar
33. “I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.” – Kanye West
34. “My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding, and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.” – BUSTA RHYMES
35. “Next time you see a brother down, stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.” – Grand Puba
36. “Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.” – Rick Ross
37. “All of my kindness is taken for weakness.” – Kanye West
38. I’m also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. – Azealia Banks
39. “Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” ― Tupac Shakur
40. “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.” – P. DIDDY
41. “Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.” – DMX
42. 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
43. “Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.” – Machine Gun Kelly
44. “If you can’t do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?” – Kid Cudi
45. “If you admire someone, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.” – Kanye West
46. “I be there for you, I will care for you.” – Drake
47. “Never assume you know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you heard it straight from the source.” – Chris Brown
48. “It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.” – Snoop Dogg
49. “Money and power don’t change you, they just further expose your true self.” – Jay Z
50. 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
51. “Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.” – Tupac Shakur
52. “I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.” – Nas
53. “Cherish these nights, cherish these people. Life is a movie, but there’ll never be a sequel.” – Nicki Minaj, All Things Go
54. “I’m too loyal and too focused to be losing and be hopeless.” – Tyga
55. Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. – Rick Ross (see more Rick Ross quotes)
56. “Rather lose love than to move on never knowing what it felt like.” – Wale
57. “When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.” – Drake
58. “Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.” – Wiz Khalifa
59. “Surround yourself with love, not friends.” – Lil Wayne
60. “The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.” – Aesop Rock
61. “It’s easy to forget who you are.” – Kendrick Lamar
62. “Why do we try so hard to fit in, when we were born to stand out?” – Machine Gun Kelly
63. “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
64. “Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like apologizing for being real.” – Lil Wayne
65. “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
66. “Some nights I wish I could go back in life / Not to change s–t, just to feel a couple things twice.” – Drake
67. “Learn life, before life learn you.” – Jadakiss
68. “I ain’t got a lotta money, but I got a lotta style.” – Fifth Harmony
69. “God will take you through hell, just to get to heaven.” – T.I
70. “What I wanna know is why I never fit in right, like a fat dude getting on a packed flight.” – Childish Gambino
71. “I’m going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.” – T.I
72. “They say love is the key. Somebody changed the lock.” – Lil Wayne
73. I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. – Kanye West
74. “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
75. “We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.” – Drake
76. “Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense.” – A$AP Rocky
77. “I’m an ordinary person but I’m paid.” – Lil Boosie
78. “You gotta be able to smile through the bullshit.” – Tupac
79. “Love me or hate me, I stay hate free. They say we learn from mistakes well that’s why they mistake me.” – Lil Wayne
80. “Don’t believe in kings, believe in the Kingdom.” – Chance the Rapper
81. “I can see you’re sad even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes.”–Eminem, Mockingbird
82. “Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It’s a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.-CHANCE THE RAPPER
83. “I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.” -Eminem
84. “Damn right I like the life I live because I went from negative to positive.” – Biggie Smalls
85. “With your phone out, gotta hit them angles” — Drake, “Nice for What”
86. “Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.” – J. Cole
87. “I don’t dance now, I make money moves.” – Cardi B
88. “I’m my own competition, I’m competing with myself.” – Cardi B
89. “What is love? In math, it’s a problem. In history, it’s a battle. In science, it’s a reaction. But in my heart, it’s you.” –Tyga
90. “Never mind what hater’s say, ignore ’em till they fade away.” – T.I
91. I love country music, but I also love gangster rap. – Anderson East
92. “I get those goosebumps every time you come around. You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine.”— Travis Scott
93. “Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.” – LIL WAYNE
94. It’s bad poetry executed by people that can’t sing. That’s my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele
95. “I cannot see heaven being much better than this.” – Drake
96. “All I do is win win win no matter what.” – DJ Khaled
97. “We only know what we know until someone knows better.” – Chance the Rapper
98. “Good things come in good time.” – WIZ KHALIFA
99. “Sky is the limit… and you know that you can have what you want, be what you want.” – Notorious B.i.g.
100. “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
101. “She said ‘where we goin?’ I said ‘the moon.’” — Travis Scott, “Sicko Mode”
102. “No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.” -Jadakiss
103. “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
104. Love yourself and your expression, you can’t go wrong. – KRS-One
105. “Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” – Ice Cube
106. “They see pictures, they say goals. I’m who they trying to be.” – Cardi B, “Bodak Yellow”
107. “The business of hip hop is probably the most tangible example of the genre’s dramatic maturation.” – Carlos Wallace
108. “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Chris Brown
109. “Trust your own judgement, live with it and love it.” – Nas
110. “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.” – P2 Chainz
111. “Only God can judge me.”― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete
112. “We ain’t picture perfect but we worth the picture still.” – J. COLE
113. “If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.” – Biggie Smalls
114. “We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.” – Kanye West
115. “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
116. “I like when money makes a difference but don’t make you different.”–Drake, From Time
117. I would say that I’m more moved by melody, even though I love to rap. – Drake
118. “How many people you bless, is how you measure success.” – Rick Ross
119. “You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.” – Eminem
120. Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. – Kurt Cobain
121. “Last night I saw you in my dreams, now I can’t wait to go to sleep.” – Kanye West, Hey Mama
122. “I am honestly trying to inspire you to do something. I ain’t saying, ‘I’m changin’ lives,’ I’m saying, ‘Make a decision and do something,’ and see where you are four years later!” – Killer Mike
123. “One day you’re gonna remember me and how much I love you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” – Drake
124. “Even the genius asks his questions.” – Tupac
125. “I go on and on. Can’t understand how I last so long.” – TOO $HORT
126. “No matter how hard it gets stick your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.” – Tupac, “Me Against the World”
127. “When the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, because the dance with the devil might last you forever.” – Immortal Technique
128. “Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.” – Tupac
129. “The sooner you realize things will never be the same, the sooner you can move on.” – Kid Cudi
130. “They say you can’t turn a bad girl good. But once a good girl’s gone bad, she’s bad forever.” – Jay Z
131. “It seems like blessings keep falling in my lap.” – Chance the Rapper, “Blessings”
132. “A goal is just a dream with a deadline.” – Drake
133. “People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial. -NICKI MINAJ
134. “Same kid’s went to Catholic school is dealers
135. “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.” – 2Pac
136. “In the future, hip-hop is going to be called American folklore.” – KRS-One
137. “Remind yourself, nobody’s built like you. You design yourself.” – JAY-Z
138. “Behind me is infinite power. Before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity. My strength is mental, physical and spiritual.-50 CENT
139. “Kept breaking promises you said you would keep, so you can leave a message at the beep.” – Mac Miller
140. “Speak the truth even if your voice shakes.” – Iggy Azalea
141. My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids. – Mystikal
142. “You might not have a car or big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.” – SNOOP DOGG
143. “Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless
144. “If I had the moment, I’d capture that moment and you’d be right next to me.” – Chris Brown
145. “Living well eliminates the need for revenge.” – KANYE WEST
146. “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
147. “Stop lookin’ at what you ain’t got, and start being thankful for what you do got.” – T.I.
148. “No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile.” – Mac Miller
149. “Only God can judge me, so I’m gone, either love me or leave me alone.” – Jay Z
150. “The life you live is more important than the words you speak.” – Mac Miller
151. 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
152. Although rap is about boasting, it’s also about honesty and expressing your emotions. – Keith Stanfield
153. “Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.” – Drake
154. “I got some weight on my shoulders, to me it’s like feathers.” – Lil Wayne
155. “No law’s gonna change us, we have to change us.” – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Same Love
156. “Good things come in good time.” – Wiz Khalifa
157. “If it ain’t making me money, making me better or making me happy… ain’t making time for it.” – 50 Cent
158. “We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.” – Biggie Smalls
159. “Well, hip hop is what makes the world go round.” – Snoop Dogg
160. “Keeping it real ain’t about carrying a gun or smoking blunts. It’s about being true to yourself and those around you.” – LL Cool J
161. “I’m the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.” – 50 Cent
162. “I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.” – Tupac Shakur
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