Top 82 Life Rap Quotes
#2. My life is like a song and I think I know the words,
And as I start to sing along the whole verse becomes a blur.
So I freestyle improv, make mistakes and evolve,
The obstacles repeat, cause naturally it revolves.
MURS
#3. Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever.
Nas
#4. 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 Green
#5. I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
But my life been good since I started finding peace.
Nas
#6. 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
#7. Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
#8. I never asked to be born, and death's no question.
The sun's still shining off the same old lessons,
Then why does life feel like an educated guess?
And my thoughts are like meals ... I'm a sucker for the seconds.
Amir Mohamed
#9. That's my life. But I don't glorify violence, and I hate jail. The rap game saved me, man: I've got three children, and I wouldn't even think of putting my hand in somebody's pocket or doing something stupid now.
Black Rob
#10. Whenever an art form - music, book, drama, song - is dragged into the seminar rooms, it is finished as a force. Nothing is more deadly than the anatomizing of scholarship, since the study of art, any art - even the obscene, semiliterate yawp and grunt of rap - drains the life from it.
Paul Theroux
#11. My life is a blunt to the head, a prayer for the dead,
Run around hustlin ... scared of the feds.
They said death is eternal sleep,
But the only thing is you ain't really sure if you prepared for the bed.
Styles P
#12. When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.
Snoop Dogg
#13. It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes ... I don't know any other feeling.
Action Bronson
#14. I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why.
Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school,
... I went to school high.
Styles P
#15. You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me.
Too $hort
#16. The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight ...
Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!
Ludacris
#17. One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'
Jason Ritter
#18. I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it wasn't for hiphop they'd still be living in that. So when I think of hiphop, I think hiphop saves lifes, hiphop changes lives.
Jon Connor
#19. Yeah, my life a bitch, but you know nothing about her
Been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers
Lil' Wayne
#20. I live this life at a pace that anyone can go.
Know your place, and dedicate your role
... To the faith that you'll die alone
Kendrick Lamar
#21. Life is like a lunchroom at school. In this industry you've got little individual tables of actors, singers, rap stars, this, that, the other. But it's a big industry that also encompasses anyone in the public eye.
Hayden Panettiere
#22. Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Richard Dreyfuss
#23. Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
I know your fed up but you must try to survive
Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.
Macklemore
#24. It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim,
Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them.
Stand up on your own,
And prove that you are grown,
Because the life that you save may be your own.
Lee Majors
#25. We live in a society created by an empire
That's based on terror ... welcome to the One World Era,
A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life,
That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.
Coolio
#26. 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel De Cervantes
#27. All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew
up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling
point ... Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in
their face.
Eminem
#28. Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it.
All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.
T.I.
#29. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
Hal David
#30. I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
Ja Rule
#31. Life's a maze, you twist and you turn through it
The driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it
Clipse
#32. Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
R. Kelly
#33. I committed crimes of passion and my soul was suspected,
But it was thrown out of court because of course the Creator and I connected.
He told me, Fear not for thou art protected. Your life is being requested,
Cee Lo Green
#34. A simple right or left can mean life or death,
Epic fail or nice success,
Days of pleasure or nights of stress.
Ka
#35. In this life ain't no happy endings;
Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.
J. Cole
#36. This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.
Young Thug
#37. I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything.
David Chang
#38. I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.
Trae Tha Truth
#39. Picked up the yoga, put down the soda.
My healthy mind ... that's what's gon' help me over.
Life of a stoner (if you still concerned),
I never lose, I only win or learn;
It's all about your state of mind.
Dizzy Wright
#40. My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly
Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me
K'naan
#41. Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins,
And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness.
But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly
Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.
Termanology
#42. People who go out and try to be a rebel at night,
Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.
Immortal Technique
#43. In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.
Bobby Moynihan
#44. Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer
I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers
How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas.
Lil B
#45. Her life is deep, but I still dig her
Lil' Wayne
#46. City lights shine bright on my complexion,
Self-reflection ... red hairs flashing at the intersection.
Life is a green light, one star, no script,
Supporting actors ... fresh peaches, no pit.
Action Bronson
#47. I met this girl when I was ten years old,
And what I loved most she had so much soul.
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me.
Common
#48. That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it was street-level journalism, real-life observations told in poetry. That's the vision I tried to bring to all my recordings.
Ice-T
#49. As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast?
Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?
And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it
And if you did, then that's family business.
Kanye West
#51. The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay-Z
#52. Life is a beach, and these hoes try'na lay out
Lil' Wayne
#53. All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper.
Q-Tip
#54. Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by,
That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky.
Ludacris
#55. At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I'll let you decide which is the more important revelation.
Taylor Swift
#56. Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
Ice-T
#57. Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.
Drake
#58. Everything has a price ...
No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life.
I understood later that it's all about paper,
Everything has a fee in the land of the free.
O.C.
#59. Long as I live large, life will be luxury,
Ladies in Lamborghinis ... love is like luck to me.
Redman
#60. Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem
#61. Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.
Sadat X
#62. Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.
Amy Alkon
#63. Life is love, heartache and strain,
Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.
O.C.
#64. So lovers of life, don't keep your hopes up high.
Why? Cause it's just a matter of time before it's your turn to die.
But until then, when you stop breathin',
It's time to stand up and fight for what you believe in!
Kirk Jones
#65. I've never had a dream in my life,
Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued.
I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done.
So I've been the dream I wanted to be since Day One.
Aesop Rock
#66. Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Here today and gone tomorrow ... just like that.
E-40
#67. The first lady in my life, but now you're gone,
I learned through the years to keep carrying on.
Your picture brings me tears and memories,
The way things could be ... and they should be, but they're not.
Afrika Baby Bam
#68. I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
Randall Park
#69. I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it
Macklemore
#70. I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game,
To stimulate, then activate the left and right brain.
Said, 'Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut.
You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what.'
That's one to live by, or either that's one to die to.
Andre Benjamin
#71. I never let the worst things in life get the best of me.
So take these testes and, ummm ... open sesame.
King Sun
#72. Life is real, reality is not a dream.
Those who chose to sleep ... I wake em up,
Cause you're sleepin with your mouth open hummin deez nuts.
King Sun
#74. Every time I write these words they become a taboo,
Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true,
Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.
Kendrick Lamar
#75. My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.
Ras Kass
#76. And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson
It's times like this that make you
Macklemore
#77. Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
Nikki Sanderson
#78. Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God
Kendrick Lamar
#79. You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.
Eric Burdon
#81. When Lin optioned his book, Ron was relieved that the Founding Father who had the most dramatic and least appreciated life story would finally get his due - even though a rap musical was the last way that Ron had anticipated Hamilton getting it.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#82. Life is a gamble, we scramble for money,
I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.
Prodigy
