Himanshu Tyagi
Welcome to our awesome blog, where we dive deep into the world of hip-hop and explore the incredible wisdom rappers share about life. We’ve assembled a carefully curated collection of 120 mind-blowing quotes that capture existence’s ups and downs, struggles, and victories.
From the legends of rap to the hottest new talents, these quotes will move, motivate, and touch your soul. Get ready to be inspired as we unravel the poetic expressions and thought-provoking insights that make rap a powerful form of storytelling and self-reflection.
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120 Best Quotes About Life From Rappers
1. “Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.” – Wiz Khalifa
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2. “I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.” -Eminem
3. “You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” – Snoop Dogg
4. “Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I’m sure / And if you fall, stand tall and come back for more.” –Tupac
5. “Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.”– Kid Cudi
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6. “Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.” – Lil Wayne
7. “We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.” – Biggie Smalls
8. “The message I’m sending to myself — I can’t change the world until I change myself first.” – Kendrik Lamar
9. “I’d shoot for the moon, but I’m too busy gazing at stars.” – Eminem
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10. “Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.” – Rick Ross
11. “I’m a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!” – Jay-Z
12. “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
13. “Your best teacher is your last mistake.”- 50 Cent
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14. “Take a stand and command to demand what’s grand / I know we can if we just understand.”- Big Daddy Kane
15. “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!” – Jay-Z
16. “To live, is to suffer / To survive, well, that’s to find meaning in the suffer.” – DMX
17. “Speak the truth even if your voice shakes.” – Iggy Azalea
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18. “It’s true that pain makes people change.” – Kid Cudi
19. “Learn life, before life learn you.” – Jadakiss
20. “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
21. “Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.” – Wale
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22. “Women are the most beautiful yet difficult beings known to man.” – Lil Wayne
23. Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I want to smile and live life.
24. “You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.” – Nas
25. “You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.” – Queen Latifah
26. “Represent from the heart and don’t let nobody stop it.” – Rakim
27. “If you don’t see you beautiful in your complexion / It ain’t complex to put it in context.” – Rapsody
28. “Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.” – Machine Gun Kelly
29. “Forgive, but don’t forget, girl, keep ya head up.” – Tupac Shakur
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30. “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 Mille
31. “When you’re grateful you have no time to become mad or hateful.” – Rev Run
32. Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
33. “I’m just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.” – A$AP Rocky
34. “Nevermind what haters say / Ignore them ’til they fade away.” – T.I
35. “Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I’m sure / And if you fall, stand tall and come back for more.” – Tupac
36. “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
37. “Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.” – Sean Combs
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38. “Rap is something you do. Hip-hop is something you live.” – KRS-One
39. That’s how I feel sometimes. I don’t want to be around nobody. I just want to be alone.
40. “I know what my identity is.” – Travis Scott
41. “The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now. The strong in me, I still smile. – “i ” by Kendrick Lamar
42. “Cause whatever you love can be taken away, so live like it’s your dying day.”
43. “I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.” – Wiz Khalifa
44. “The first thing that’s important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.”—Wale
45. “You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That’s what Martin Luther King told me.” – Lil Wayne
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46. “How many people you bless is how you measure success” – Rick Ross
47. “To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.” – Queen Latifah
48. “Some said ‘how’d you fly?’ I said from not being afraid of trying to fly” – Jay-Z
49. “We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.” – Drake
50. “Living well eliminates the need for revenge.” – Kanye West
51. “Without order, nothing exists. Without chaos, nothing evolves.”–Jedi Mind Tricks
52. “I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, or use my arrogance as a steam to power my dreams.” – Kanye West
53. “Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.” – Nicki Minaj
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54. They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” – 2Pac
55. “If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it.” – Cardi B
56. “Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live.” – KRS-One
57. “Memories have to be our most painful blessing.” – Kanye West
58. “I’m also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.” – Azealia Banks
59. “I don’t want my personality to overshadow my talent.” – Cardi B
60. “Don’t fall for fake people. They’re often disguised as people close to you.”― Big Lez
61. “You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight.”― Jay-Z
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62. “Once you really know yourself, can’t nobody tell you nothing about you.” – Megan Thee Stallion
63. “Money is My Bitch” – Nas
64. “Ice melts into rain, love turns into pain. Here I go again, falling in love again.” – Wale
65. “I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.” – Eminem
66. “You gotta be able to smile through the bullshit.” – Tupac
67. “I just want to be like a good example to somebody in the future.” – Megan Thee Stallion
68. “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
69. “Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.” – Biggie Smalls
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70. “The sooner you realize things will never be the same, the sooner you can move on.” – Kid Cudi
71. “If you admire someone, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.” – Kanye West
72. “I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that’s something my fans love about me.” – Lil’ Kim
73. “A normal life is boring.” – Eminem
74. “You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.” – Eminem
75. “When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.” – Drake
76. “I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.” – Missy Elliot
77. “Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.” – Tupac
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78. “You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.” – Eminem
79. “Life without knowledge is death in disguise” Knowledge Of Self” – Talib Kweli
80. “Life can always change, you have to adjust.” – Drake
81. “Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” – Ice Cube
82. “Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” ― Tupac Shakur
83. “Rather lose love than to move on never knowing what it felt like.” – Wale
84. “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur
85. “Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.” – Drake
86. “Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.” – Eminem
87. “It feels good to have your work respected again.” – Eminem
88. “People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial.”– Nicki Minaj
89. “I’ll give you all of me until nothing is left.” – Childish Gambino
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90. “My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons, not your business.” – Kid Cudi
91. “You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you.” ― Jay-Z
92. “When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.” – Drake
93. “Love yourself and your expression, you can’t go wrong.” – KRS-One
94. “The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most.” – Drake
95. “They say love is the key. Somebody changed the lock.” – Lil Wayne
96. “I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.” – Travis scott
97. “Never assume you know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you heard it straight form the source.” – Chris Brown
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98. “Damn right I like the life I live, cause I went from negative to positive.” – Biggie Smalls
99. “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
100. “You can’t buy vision, and you can’t buy aesthetic.” – Travis scott
101. “I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.” – Anderson East
102. “Stop lookin’ at what you ain’t got, and start being thankful for what you do got.” – T.I
103. “God will take you through hell, just to get to heaven.” – T.I
104. “You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.” – Nas
105. “Cause whatever you love can be taken away, so live like it’s your dying day.” – Machine Gun Kelly
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106. “Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like apologizing for being real.” – Lil Wayne
107. “Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.” – Rick Ross
108. “People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it’s actually the good ones that drive you insane.” – Kid Cudi
109. “Trust your own judgement, live with it and love it.” – Nas
110. I am obsessed with rap music – it’s such a big part of my life. – Randall Park
111. “Remind yourself, nobody’s built like you. You design yourself.” – Jay Z
112. “You don’t have to feel the need to put somebody down to make yourself feel better.” – Nicki Minaj
113. “Good things come in good time.” – Wiz Khalifa
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114. “They say you can’t turn a bad girl good. But once a good girl’s gone bad, she’s bad forever.” – Jay Z
115. “I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.” – Nas
116. “I’m going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.” – T.I
117. “No law’s gonna change us, we have to change us.” – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
118. “I’ll be your best friend if you promise you’ll be mine.” – 50 Cent
119. “Everyone has an addiction. Mine happens to be you.” – Andre 3000
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120. “I love you like a fat kid loves cake.” – 50 Cent
Summary
Discover the ultimate collection of 120 inspirational quotes from your favorite rappers about life. These powerful words give wisdom, motivation, and a fresh perspective on success. Get inspired today!
