Rap senior quotes

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)

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

Everything I'm not made me everything I am

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't

My emancipation don't fit your equation

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

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

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

Fools swear they wise, wise men know they foolish

Couldn't afford a car, so she named her daughter Alexis

It seem we livin' the American Dream

But the people highest up got the lowest self-esteem

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

One thing about the men that's controlling the pen

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

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?

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

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

Last name Ever, first name Greatest

Facts on tracks I recite well

Everybody wanna be like Mike, but Mike wanna be like L

Dreams stopped being dreams when I turned 'em into goals

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy, and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Yeah, life's short, don't ever question the length

It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength

They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor

I would be Ivy League if America played fair

Poor excuse, and so I was

You keep using the same recipe, You’re gonna keep baking the same cake.

The only people who are afraid of facts are those who don’t have a leg to stand on.

Gettin' bread every day, I graduated from biscuits

I don't do karate, so why lil' shawty wanna kick it?

Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in debt?

So if you’re my friend, you could never compete with me, cuz I’m not competing with you.

It's what I live for, you take away that and I'm gone

There's a difference between doin' wrong and bein' wrong

I live by the beat like you live check-to-check

If it don't move your feet, then I don't eat

Cherish these nights, cherish these people

Life is a movie, but there'll never be a sequel

I scored 1.1 on my S.A.T.

And still push a whip with a right and left A.C

Can't stand on business, I keep fallin' like Alicia Keys

You showed me that everything was black because my eyes were closed

We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with

The machinery could eat us, we just really love our buttons, um

I chose money over fame, how I end up with 'em both?

House on both coasts, but I live on the charts

You could put a lot of Auto-Tune on it and it’ll still be a sucky song.

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothin'

To all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustlin' in front of

No matter what you say or what you do

When I'm alone, I'd rather be with you

Didn't choose this dirty game, this dirty game it chose me

No, I wasn't born in Ghana, but Africa is my momma

I was taught to act my shoe size, never my age

Hip-hop is a freedom of expression

Not a freedom of depression

Some say I lucked up; I call it perfect timin' (Chyeah)