90s Rappers
“Never become so involved with something that it blinds you.
Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.”
DMX "It's On"
"I'm trying to write my wrongs, but it's funny, them same wrongs helped me write this song."
Kanye West
"Real G's move in silence like lasagna"
Lil Wayne
“I’m too loyal and too focused to be losing and be hopeless”
Tyga
"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
“You know it’s funny when it rains it pours
They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.”
2pac
"I've grown and my passion for music has grown. I've become more enhanced and I've advanced my vocabulary. All around artist development."
Lil Baby
“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
"I plan to eat with the people I starved with."
Logic
"You can't cheat the game, you can't cheat the grind. You get out what you put in at the end of the day."
Dababy
“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”
“My biggest lesson is just, man: Whatever you do, own it. Know what you’re doing and know 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
“I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.”
Eminem
“Don’t let nobody tell you that you can’t do it. Love what you do until you don’t love it anymore. Nothing’s impossible.”
Fetty Wap
"I done rapped about drugs that I don't even take. People think I take 'em and then people take 'em thinking I take 'em."
Lil Baby
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender."
2pac
"I'm just basically spittin' out my emotions to the world. Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about."
Ludacris
“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
“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
“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
“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
"If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce."
Gucci Mane
“People look at you and say you changed, as if you worked that hard to stay the same.”
Jay Z
"That's the only thing I don't like - people always got something to say about my life. I don't know nothing about their life. People just judge you when they don't even know you."
21 savage
“I’m my own competition, I’m competing with myself.”
Cardi B