Wednesday, August 8, 2018

100 Best Rap Quotes and Lyrics about Life, Love and Success

Our latest collection of rap quotes on Everyday Power Blog.

Rap is defined as “a type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing.”

Developed as part of hip-hop culture, Rap music is arguably one of the most popular music genres. It provides everything the younger generation desires and does it refreshingly.

Although the rap music industry might have some questionable characters in the mix, there are a lot of rap artists who inspire us with truly spectacular lyrics and life lessons.

Rap quotes are powerful and enjoyable. There is a lot of wisdom and inspiration to be found in the words of famous rappers. Let’s look at some great rap quotes about life, love, and success.

 

Best rap quotes and lyrics about life, love and success

 

1.) “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

 

2.) “Never become so involved with something that it blinds you.
Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.” – DMX, “It’s On

 

3.) “Life without knowledge is death in disguise”
Knowledge Of Self” – Talib Kweli

 

4.) “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

 

5.) “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

 

6.) “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

 

7.) “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur

 

8.) “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

 

9.) “I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.” –Wiz Khalifa

 

10.) “Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.”– Kid Cudi

 

11.) “Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.” – Wiz Khalifa

 

12.) “Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” ― Tupac Shakur

 

13.) “Be careful what you say to someone today. Because tomorrow they might not be here, and you can’t take it back.”– Wiz Khalifa

 

14.) “Jump regardless of the consequence, cause even on the night of the apocalypse, everybody’s an optimist.”–Tonedeff, Optimist

 

15.) “I’d shoot for the moon but I’m too busy gazing at stars.”–Eminem, Not Afraid

 

16.) “Without order, nothing exists. Without chaos, nothing evolves.”–Jedi Mind Tricks, Heavy Metal Kings

 

Best rap quotes and lyrics about life

 

17.) “You know it’s funny when it rains it pours
They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor” – 2Pac

 

18.) “Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live.” – KRS-One

 

19.) “You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight.”― Jay-Z

 

20.) “Don’t fall for fake people. They’re often disguised as people close to you.”― Big Les

 

21.) 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

 

22.) 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

 

23.) I’m also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. – Azealia Banks

 

24.) “You gotta be able to smile through the bullshit.” – Tupac

 

25.) 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

 

26.) “Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.” – Tupac

 

27.) “Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.” – Machine Gun Kelly

 

28.) “Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.” – Wale

 

29.) “‘Cause whatever you love can be taken away, so live like it’s your dying day.” – Machine Gun Kelly

 

30.) “Living well eliminates the need for revenge.” – Kanye West

 

Best rap quotes and lyrics about love, family and relationships

 

31.) “Once in awhile, I’mma cheat and get dome,
But best believe that I’mma always come home.
Shorty, I luv you.”  – Meyhem Lauren, “Let’s Hold Hands

 

32.) “If you admire someone, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.” – Kanye West

 

33.) “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

 

34.) “Last night I saw you in my dreams, now I can’t wait to go to sleep.”–Kanye West, Hey Mama

 

35.) “People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial.”– Nicki Minaj, Pills and Potions

 

36.) Love yourself and your expression, you can’t go wrong. – KRS-One

 

37.) “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

 

38.) “One day you’re gonna remember me and how much I love you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” – Drake

 

39.) “Trust your own judgement, live with it and love it.” – Nas

 

40.) “Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.” – Drake

 

Rap quotes about music

 

41.) Music just ain’t what it used to;
We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to. – Jadakiss, “Hip-Hop (Remix)

 

42.) “You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you.”― Jay-Z, Decoded

 

43.) Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. – Eminem

 

44.) 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

 

45.) I would say that I’m more moved by melody, even though I love to rap. – Drake

 

46.) I love country music, but I also love gangster rap. – Anderson East

 

47.) I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. – Kanye West

 

48.) I am obsessed with rap music – it’s such a big part of my life. – Randall Park

 

49.) Although rap is about boasting, it’s also about honesty and expressing your emotions. – Keith Stanfield

 

50.) My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids. – Mystikal

 

51.) Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. – Kurt Cobain

 

52.) It’s bad poetry executed by people that can’t sing. That’s my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

 

Best rap quotes and lyrics about friends

 

53.) “Me and my people break bread, sit and smoke
The conversation rich, but that depend on what you consider broke” – Talib Kweli

 

54.) “It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none. ”― Snoop Dogg

 

55.) “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

 

56.) “I can see you’re sad even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes.”–Eminem, Mockingbird

 

57.) “Cherish these nights, cherish these people. Life is a movie, but there’ll never be a sequel.”–Nicki Minaj, All Things Go

 

58.) 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

 

59.) Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. – Rick Ross

 

60.) “You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.” – Eminem

 

Rap quotes and lyrics about respect

 

61.) 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

 

62.) “Only God can judge me.”― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete

 

63.) “No law’s gonna change us, we have to change us.”–Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Same Love

 

64.) “Kept breaking promises you said you would keep, so you can leave a message at the beep.” – Mac Miller

 

65.) “The sooner you realize things will never be the same, the sooner you can move on.” – Kid Cudi

 

66.) “I’m going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.” – T.I

 

67.) “Everyday is a new opportunity to reach that goal.” – Rick Ross

 

68.) “Never assume you know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you heard it straight form the source.” – Chris Brown

 

69.) “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

 

70.) “I’ll be your best friend if you promise you’ll be mine.” – 50 Cent

 

Rap quotes and lyrics about fame

 

71.) Some seek fame cause they need validation,
Some say hating is confused admiration. – Nas, “Stay”

 

72.) “‘I am happy’. That’s just the saddest lie.”–Kid Cudi, Soundtrack 2 My Life

 

73.) “Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.” –Kanye West, Homecoming

 

74.) Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. – A$AP Rocky

 

75.) They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am. – Jay-Z

 

76.) “Why do we try so hard to fit in, when we were born to stand out?” – Machine Gun Kelly

 

77.) “Good things come in good time.” – Wiz Khalifa

 

78.) “What I wanna know is why I never fit in right, like a fat dude getting on a packed flight.” – Childish Gambino

 

79.) “Well, hip hop is what makes the world go round.” – Snoop Dogg

 

80.) “Even the genius asks his questions.” – Tupac

 

Rap quotes about money and hustle

 

81.) “Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless
Snakes slither in the grass spineless” – Eminem

 

82.) “I’m a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!”― Jay-Z

 

83.) “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”― Jay-Z

 

84.) “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

 

85.) “Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.”–2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up

 

86.) “I like when money makes a difference but don’t make you different.”–Drake, From Time

 

87.) 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

 

88.) “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

 

89.) Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one. – Lil Wayne

 

90.) “You might not have a car or big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.” – Snoop Dogg

 

More rap quotes and lyrics

 

91.) I don’t like thugs, I don’t like nerds,
I don’t like myself and I hate bein’ disturbed. – Sean Price, “Critically Acclaimed

 

92.) “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
After you who’s last, it’s Doom, he’s the worst known” – MF DOOM

 

93.) I never sleep ‘cuz sleep is the cause of death. – Nas

 

94.) “Same kid’s went to Catholic school is dealers
And same n_gga’s had no heart is now killers” – Ma$e

 

95.) Telling my business to kids I don’t even know,
You’re like a daytime talk show…and that’s low. – Guru, “Take it Personal

 

96.) We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us. – Drake

 

97.) Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like apologizing for being real. – Lil Wayne

 

98.) Only God can judge me, so I’m gone, either love me or leave me alone. – Jay Z

 

99.) For every dark night, there’s a brighter day. – Tupac

 

100.) How many people you bless, is how you measure success. – Rick Ross

 

Which Rap quotes were your favorites?

Despite all the funny characters that might exist in the rap music industry, there are plenty of rap artists who inspire with their powerful and enjoyable words andlyrics.

Hopefully, these rap quotes and lyrics have inspired the way you look at life and success.

Did you enjoy these rap quotes? Which of the quotes was your favorite? Tell us in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.

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