Quotes by Rappers

As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic / My hand got this pistol shakin, cause I sense danger / Like Camp Crystal Lake, and / Don't wanna shoot him, but I got him, trapped / Within this infrared dot, bout to hot him and hit rock bottom / No answers to these trick questions, no time shit stressin / My life found I got ta live for the right now / Time waits for no man, can't turn back the hands / Once it's too late, gotta learn to live with regrets
Jay-Z
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice-T
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice-T
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Eminem
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.
Eminem
If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.
Eminem
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
I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
Jay-Z
The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.
Tablo
Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.
Eminem
I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shotHoes I ain't caughtOr shit I ain't bought.
Ice-T
The bad news is nothing lasts forever,The good news is nothing lasts forever.
J. Cole
I bought the Heartbreak Hotel, on my own with no investors. Closed it down and opened the Fuck You, Get Over It bed and breakfast.
Scroobius Pip
Why be a king,when you can be a god?
Eminem
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants - use it to get into their heads.
Scroobius Pip
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
Eminem
Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
Jay-Z
...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
Ice-T
This communist talk is so confusing
Jay-Z
I guess when your stars alignYou do like the solar system and plan it out
Big Sean
Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.
Ice-T
You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
Tupac Shakur
You can not change the past but you can change the future.
Immortal Technique
I act like shit don’t phase me inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive
Eminem
It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.
Tablo
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
Talib Kweli
Jealousy’s a weak emotion.
Jay-Z
Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin.
Nicki Minaj
Man I'm high off life. Fuck it, I'm WASTED
Jay-Z
People tell me not to cook, drive, or touch anything for the sake of world peace.
Namjoon
The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me
Lauryn Hill
No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.
Tupac Shakur
Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.
Ice-T
To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. 'Nigga' becomes 'porch monkey' becomes 'coon' and so on if that's what's in a person's heart. They key is to change the person. And we change people through conversation, not through censorship.
Jay-Z
Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.
Common
don't look in my eyes you will fall into a deep well and drown
d nasty
If I had an ear 2 confide inI would cry among my treasured friendsBut who do u know that stops that longto help another carry onThe world moves fast and it would rather pass u bythan 2 stop and c what makes u cry
Tupac Shakur
Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.
Jay-Z
You could never understand why I grind like I doMakiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do
Nicki Minaj
There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
George Watsky
I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.
Eminem
What is nothing to you, can be love to me
Tablo
Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously fuck you up.
Ice-T
It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.
Jay-Z
I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
Eminem
The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.
Chuck D
This so called 'Home of the Brave'why isn't anybody Backing us up!When they c these crooked ass Redneck copsconstantly Jacking us up
Tupac Shakur
I don't like the way our community throws the word around like it's water, because it's a derogatory term. A lot of times people come up to me and say, "What's up my nigger?" I'll respond, "Nah, wait a minute. What?" "Oh, oh, what's up my brother?" Sometimes you have to check people, because if it gets loose with us then white people will start to use it. I know a bunch of white people that started to get lax so I had to check them. Some black people were afraid to check them because they thought it was cool. You can never turn that word around and make it cool Nigger is just derogatory, it's wrong, and it's a fucked up term. It's not a word of love, Yo, what's up my nigger?" Fuck that. You can't turn the word puss around. Go around and say, "What's up pussy" to a brother. He'll try to kill you. "What's up dickhead?" You can't turn that around, so you can't turn nigger around as hard as you try.
Chuck D
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
Ice-T
We all make mistakes, but it is those that learn from them that rise to the top.
Taboo
The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Tupac Shakur
We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.
Eminem
Sun of himself. All things are his moons.
Kate Tempest
I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.There's Heaven then there's Hell niggasOne day your cruisin' in your seven,Next day your sweatin', forgettin' your lies,Alibis ain't matchin' up, bullshit catchin' upHit with the RICO, they repoed your vehicleEverything was all good just a week ago'Bout to start bitchin' ain't you?Ready to start snitchin' ain't you?I forgive you. Weak ass, hustlin' just ain't youAside from the fast carsHoneys that shake they ass in barsYou know you wouldn't be involvedWith the Underworld dealers, carriers of mac-millersEast coast bodiers, West coast cap-peelersLittle monkey niggas turned gorillas.
Jay-Z
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walkwithout having feet
Tupac Shakur
Stacks on deckPatrone on iceAnd we can pop bottles all nightAnd baby you could have whatever you likeLate night sex so wet so tightI'll gas up a jet for you tonightAnd baby you could go where ever you like
T.I.
You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.
George Watsky
The road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is gonna get hard and you're gonna wanna quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more who you want to be.
Will Smith
Danger is real, fear is a choice
Will Smith
Sometimes when I'm aloneI Cry, Cause I am on my own.The tears I cry are bitter and warm.They flow with life but take no formI Cry because my heart is torn.I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on.The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes...I Cry and no one cares about why.
Tupac Shakur