The best rap quotes of all time

Go hard or go home

I knocked out so many teeth, the tooth fairy went bankrupt

Screams from the haters got a nice ring to it

I guess every superhero need his theme music

Cash rules everything around me

C.R.E.A.M., get the money

Dollar, dollar bill, y'all

See, to live is to suffer

But to survive

Well, that's to find meaning in the suffering

A loss ain't a loss, it's a lesson

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice

I say the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots (Oh)

Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years

I'm rocking my peers, putting suckas in fear

Making the tears rain down like a monsoon

Listen to the bass go boom

I'm Jay-Z on a bad day, Shakespeare on my worst days

When you’re not fed with a silver spoon you learn to lick it off a knife.

They give us guns and drugs

Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs

I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death

Swear I should be locked up for stupid

that I did

But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph (Uh-huh! Yeah!)

Make music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire (Woo!)

It's easy to make people think you’re a gangster. It’s hard to convince the feds you’re not.

I don’t represent the Democratic party or the Republican party. I represent the gangsta party.

Everything I'm not made me everything I am

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't

And since we all came from a woman

Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman

I wonder why we take from our women

Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?

'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud, I'm ready, I'm hyped, plus, I'm amped

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

But real gangsta-ass niggas don't flex nuts, 'cause real gangsta-ass niggas know they got 'em

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.

All of us serve the same masters, all of us nothin' but slaves

Never forget in the story of Jesus, the hero was killed by the state

My emancipation don't fit your equation

My regrets look just like texts I shouldn't send

Huh, cop pulled me over in my imported Porsche

He said, "This car must be a hundred K", I said, "You forty short" (I said you short)

Lord, I thank You for this man, but can You come back and get him?

If I wasn't in the rap game

I'd probably have a ki, knee-deep in the crack game

Because the streets is a short stop

Either you're slingin' crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot

If they don't know your dreams, then they can't shoot 'em down

Not strong, only aggressive

Not free, we only licensed

Not compassionate, only polite

Just when I discover the meaning of life, they change it

It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine

Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine

I don't dance now, I make money moves (Ayy, ayy)

Fools swear they wise, wise men know they foolish

You can hug that block all night, it ain't gon' hug you back (Facts)

You better lose yourself in the music

The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (Go)

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

You're mad 'cause my style you're admiring

Don't be mad, UPS is hiring (Woo!)

One day, I'm wordless, next day, I'm a wordsmith

Close to success, but to happiness, I'm the furthest

Knock me down nine times but I get up ten

"Who you callin' a bitch?"

One thing about the men that's controlling the pen

That write history, they always seem to white-out they sins

Friends tell her, "He could be another Malcolm, he could be another Martin"

She told her partner, "I need a husband more than the world need another martyr"

But you can never walk on water if you still fear the sea

How are you going to call it a comeback when I've been here for years, man?

But every now and then, I wonder if the gate was put up

To keep crime out or keep our ass in

I guess it took ten years for me to be an overnight success

Only thing worse than death is a regret-filled coffin

So try before you die or always wonder what if?

Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did

Last name Ever, first name Greatest

I'm out for dead presidents to represent me

Because I've never known a live one that represent me