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250+ Best Rap Quotes For Motivation and Success

If you are on this page, you are surely looking for the best rap quotes from famous rappers of all time on success and hard work. You might not be aware that RaP stands for Rhythm and Poetry. It’s mostly common among teenagers and millennials.

The kings of inspirational rap quotes and songs like Eminem and many others are well-known rappers and hip-hop artists in the music industry. The excellent rap quotes inspire you to hustle hard and get your grind on.

Here is the curated list of the best inspirational rap quotes from thousands of rap quotes about life.

These are surely the best quotes about rap you will ever listen and once you do, they will help you to get through the toughest of times.

Without further ado, let’s begin with our list of all-time most inspirational rap quotes on success, hard work, life, and much more. Also, don’t forget to share them all with your family and friends.

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Inspirational Rap Quotes To Keep Motivation Level High

“Stay far from timid. Only make moves when your heart’s in it. And live the phrase ‘sky’s the limit.’” — The Notorious B.I.G., “Sky’s the Limit”

“You could be the king, but watch the queen conquer.” — Nicki Minaj, “Monster”

Inspirational Rap Quotes To Keep Motivation Level High

“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

“It seems like blessings keep falling in my lap.” — Chance the Rapper, “Blessings”

“She said ‘Where we goin?’ I said ‘the moon.’” — Travis Scott, “Sicko Mode”

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

“They see pictures, they say goals. I’m who they trying to be.” — Cardi B, “Bodak Yellow”

“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

“And the land of the free is full of freeloaders, leave us dead in the street to be your organ donors.” – Joey Bada$$, Land of the Free

“How you look so perfect on your worst days?” — A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, “Swervin”

“Fight for your rights, stand up, and be heard. You’re just as good as any man, believe that word.” – Salt N Pepa, Ain’t Nothing But A She Thang

“Damn right I like the life I live because I went from negative to positive.” – Biggie Smalls

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

“Birthdays were the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.” – Biggie Smalls

“Love is not just a verb, it’s you looking in the mirror.” – Kendrick Lamar, Poetic Justice

“Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” – Ice Cube

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

“Every saint got a past; every sinner got a future. Every loser gotta win, and every winner gotta lose someday.” – J Cole, Deja Vu

“There was nothing equal for my people in your math. You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads.” – Lupe Fiasco, Strange Fruition

“When the ideas are coming, I won’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.” – Dr. Dre

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

“As a wise lady once said, love the skin you’re in ’cause beauty has no rules. If they’re tryna sell an impossible dream to a fool, then you ain’t the fool to buy one.” – Skepta, Somebody’s Everything

“When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.” – Young Thug

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

“I don’t make songs for free, I make ’em for freedom.” – Chance The Rapper

“If it ain’t making me money, making me better, or making me happy… ain’t making time for it.” – 50 Cent

Inspirational Rap Quotes To Cheer You Up

“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.”- 2 Chainz

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

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Inspirational Rap Quotes To Cheer You Up

“I wanna tell the world about you just so they can get jealous And if you see her ‘fore I do tell her I wish that I met her.”— Future

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

“Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.” – J. Cole

“I get those goosebumps every time you come around. You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine.”— Travis Scott

“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

“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

“I look for ways to say ‘I love you. But I ain’t into makin’ love songs.”— A$AP Rocky

“I’m my own competition, I’m competing with myself.” – Cardi B

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

“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

“I can make your Mondays even better like the weekend.”— Travis Scott

“It’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success.” – J. Cole

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

Inspirational Rap Quotes To Jump-start Your Day Perfectly

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

“The question isn’t do he loves 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

“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

Inspirational Rappers Quotes

“This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wicked and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.” – Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

“I don’t dance now, I make money moves.” – Cardi B

“The justification for rap-rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.” – John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead

“Can’t forget that I’m golden, can’t forget where I’m going.” – A$AP Rocky

“I’m an ordinary person but I’m paid.” – Lil Boosie

“Dead Prez is playing on the car’s stereo, telling me that it’s bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ.” – Kris Kidd, I Can’t Feel My Face

“All I do is win-win-win no matter what.” – DJ Khaled

“Interview from the Spear-“People are so surprised when they find out I’m a rapper cause I don’t always show that “swag” but when they hear my raps they’re like ‘damn! Yeah, there goes CHI-T.’ But I seriously love rap and hip-hop rapping is in my veins.” – Chiara Elena ‘CHI-T‘

“But to live doesn’t mean you’re alive.” – Nicki Minaj

“Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.” – Unarine Ramaru

“I go on and on. Can’t understand how I last so long.” – TOO $HORT

“Hopeful dreams – even where crack kings’ and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars once the mic is gripped and the bars are spit.” – F. Hodge, From Within I Rise

“The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn’t get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.” – Drew

Inspirational Rap Quotes That Never Fades Away From Memory

“I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They’re remarkable. Nobody’s ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.” – Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book

“The Great White Male is rap’s Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, it’s Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy.” – David Foster Wallace

“You can’t live your life on a bus…” – Donald Glover

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Inspirational Rap Quotes That Never Fade Away From Memory

“If you are what you say you are, a superstar…
… then have no fear, the camera’s here.” – Lupe Fiasco

“Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans.” – Dean Cavanagh

“I’m too loyal and too focused to be losing and be hopeless” – Tyga

“When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.” – F. Hodge, From Within I Rise

“My life’s all I got and Heaven is all in my brain, and when I feel I’m in Hell my ideas are what get me through pain.” – Hopsin

“The rhyme pad was a spellbook – it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle

“I believe there’s a God above me, I’m just the god of everything else.” – Pusha T

“Rap is supposed to motivate, humor, address societal issues and personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.” – Unarine Ramaru

Inspirational Rap Quotes To Survive Toughest Days

“You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.” – Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“We ain’t picture perfect but we worth the picture still.” – J. Cole

“Somewhere down the road might just meet up at the right time.” – G-Eazy

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

“Rap Is More Damaging Than Confederate Statues” – Wynton Marsalis

Inspirational Rap Quotes To Survive Toughest Days

“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

“We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.” – Biggie Smalls

“Stop lookin’ at what you ain’t got, and start being thankful for what you do get.” – T.I.

“By making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding, and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.” – Busta Rhymes

“My biggest lesson is just, man: Whatever you do, own it. Know what you’re doing and know the consequences before you do it. If you’re fine with the consequences, it’s nothing nobody can tell you. Never do something because somebody else made you do it.” – Andre 3000

“My cares come from a very selfish place ’cause in reality I’m young, and I haven’t had the experience to be mature yet.” – Vince Staples

“I’m just making music. Hip-hop, like all music, is a good thing. I could use it for evil by filling it with violence and misogyny and profanity. Or I can use it to glorify God.” – Lecrae Moore, Unashamed

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

“I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto; çuz where else in death do I get to go?” – Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow

“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption. For the sins committed before revelation.” – Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow

“And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.” – Paul Beatty, The Sellout

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Inspirational Rap Quotes For Wisdom

“You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.” – Nas

“If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.” – Biggie Smalls

“God will take you through hell, just to get to heaven.” – T.I

“Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.” – Rick Ross

“Everyone has an addiction. Mine happens to be you.” – Andre 3000

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

“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

“I never sleep ‘cuz sleep is the cousin of death.” – Nas

“Some kid’s went to a Catholic school is dealers and same n_gga’s had no heart is now killers” – Ma$e

“How many people you bless, is how you measure success.” – Rick Ross

“Eminem tells stories in such a powerful and distinctive way. That’s very necessary today when the reality is becoming a lost art.” – Fuad Alakbarov, Exodus

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

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Inspirational Rap Quotes About Family and Friends

“Me and my people break bread, sit and smoke the conversation rich, but that depends on what you consider broke” – Talib Kweli

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

“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

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

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

“Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.” – Rick Ross

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

“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

“My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don’t think we should have music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I’ve said it. I’ve repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that’s more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.” – Wynton Marsalis

Quotes From Rappers

Snoop Dogg’s Inspirational Rap Quotes

“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

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

“Sorry it had to end this way but uh, it is what it is.” – Snoop Dogg

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

“You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” – Snoop Dogg

“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

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

“You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” – Snoop Dogg

Wiz Khalifa’s Inspirational Rap Quotes

“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

“Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.” – Wiz Khalifa

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

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

“Don’t let the sadness from the past and the fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.” – Wiz Khalifa

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

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

“Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.” – Wiz Khalifa

“Don’t let the sadness from the past and the fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.” – Wiz Khalifa

Jay-Z’s Inspirational Rap Quotes

“They say you can’t turn a bad girl good. But once a good girl’s gone bad, she’s bad forever.” – Jay Z

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

“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

“Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk. Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run. Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly. So I’ma spread my wings, you can meet me in the sky.” – Jay Z, My President Is Black

“A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.” – Jay-Z, Decoded

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

“Remind yourself, nobody’s built like you. You design yourself.” – Jay Z

“They say you can’t turn a bad girl good. But once a good girl’s gone bad, she’s bad forever.” – Jay Z

“Money and power don’t change you, they just further expose your true self.” – Jay Z

“Remind yourself, nobody’s built like you. You design yourself.” – Jay Z

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

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

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

“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

Chris Brown Inspirational Rap Quotes

“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Chris Brown

“If I had the moment, I’d capture that moment and you’d be right next to me.” – Chris Brown

“Never let a couple of good memories make you move backward. Look ahead and move on.” – Chris Brown

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

“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Chris Brown

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

Lil Wayne’s Inspirational Rap Quotes

“If you don’t love me somebody else will.” – Lil Wayne

“They say love is the key. Somebody changed the lock.” – Lil Wayne

“Women are the most beautiful yet difficult beings known to man.” – Lil Wayne

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

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

“If you don’t love me somebody else will.” – Lil Wayne

“Love me or hate me, I stay hate-free. They say we learn from mistakes well that’s why they mistake me.” – Lil Wayne

“I remember the love right after the fights. You can’t tell me you don’t remember those nights.” – Lil Wayne

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

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

Eminem Inspirational Rap Quotes

“The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem

“Rap was always a pipe dream for me, but rap was all I had. Because really, what was I going to do with my life? I had a young daughter. Kim and I were always either getting evicted or our house was getting shot up or robbed.” – Eminem, The Way I Am

“When I say or do something, I do it. I don’t give a damn what you think. I’m doing this for me.” — Eminem, “Not Afraid

“I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.” – Eminem

“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.” – Eminem

“You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.” – Eminem

“Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless snakes slither in the grass spineless” – Eminem

“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

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

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

“You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.” – Eminem

“Sometimes you just gotta let s*** go and say ‘to hell with it and move on.” – Eminem

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

“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

Drake Inspirational Rap Quotes

“When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.” – Drake

“We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.” – Drake

“The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most.” – Drake

“Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight.” — Drake, “The Real Her”

“With your phone out, gotta hit them angles” — Drake, “Nice for What”

“Jealousy is just loved and hate at the same time.” – Drake, Over My Dead Body

“A goal is just a dream with a deadline.” – Drake

“Some nights I wish I could go back in life / Not to change s–t, just to feel a couple of things twice.” – Drake

“I cannot see heaven being much better than this.” – Drake

“I am there for you, I will care for you.” – Drake

“Got so many chains they call me Chaining Tatum.” – Drake

“We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.” – Drake

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

Mac Miller Inspirational Rap Quotes

“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

“Something about the pain makes me want more… done a lot of drugs, never felt like this before.” – Mac Miller

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

“No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.” – Mac Miller

“I’ma do my thing until the day the reaper comes for me. You can keep on grillin’, I’ma smile back.” – Mac Miller

“I have 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

“No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile.” – Mac Miller

“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

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

Kanye West Inspirational Rap Quotes

“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

“All of my kindness is taken for weakness.” – Kanye West

“Believe in your flyness, conquer your shyness.” – Kanye West

“I’m doing pretty good as far as geniuses go.” – Kanye West

“Memories have to be our most painful blessing.” – Kanye West

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

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

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

“The plan was to drink until the pain’s over. But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?” – Kanye West, Dark Fantasy

“Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion? The soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing.” – Kanye West, Gorgeous

Tupac Inspirational Rap Quotes

“No matter how hard it gets stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it.” — Tupac, “Me Against the World”

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

“Even though you’re fed up, you gotta keep your head up.” – Tupac

“For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.” – Tupac

“Everybody’s at war with different things, I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” – Tupac

“My mama always used to tell me: if you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.” – Tupac

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

“Remember one thing Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out. Keep your head up, and handle it.” – Tupac

Final Words

Thank you for checking out this amazing collection of quotes for Rappers about hard work and success in life.

Hopefully, these inspirational rap quotes have inspired you to do great in all facets of life.

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