Rap Quotes About Dreams & Ambition

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dreams stopped being dreams when I turned 'em into goals

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

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

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

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

I’ll probably self-destruct if I ever lose, but I never do

I don’t want to close any of the doors needed to create the best product possible. But my ego is my drug.

Have you ever seen a nigga who was strong in the game

Overlookin' his tomorrows, and they finally came?

Place your bets, here's a mil', I invest in the real

Went from Netflix and chill to breakfast in Brazil

Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week

It cost to be the boss, and it ain't get no cheaper

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere

Hit the kitchen lights: now it's marble floors, everywhere! (haha)

It's mine, it's mine, it's mine—whose world is this?

The world is yours, the world is yours

We don't look nothin' like the people on the screen

You know, the movie stars, picture perfect beauty queens

But we got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti

He's nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready

To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

I’ve reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

It ain't a force in this world like the focused drive

You gotta focus on yourself like an only child

You make your dream realer, and you make your team better

Forget about the risk we took, I never can

Rebel in this white-man-world until they bury him (Bury him)

Being broke is so un-American

That's why I'm screaming All Money In, 'til the end, nigga

Can't be scared to fail in search of perfection

I'm in it for the glory, not the honor mention

I am a walking affirmation, that imagination

And focus and patience gets you closer to your aspiration

What good is a degree when there's no jobs to apply?

And fast food won't do cause you overqualified

Went from makin' tuna sandwiches to makin' the news

I started speakin' my mind and tripled my views

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

Imagination turned a Honda into Wraith

I don’t chase money—I try to make the money chase me

You just chase your dreams

You don't even take the time to sleep

But don't forget to breathe

The weatherman don't even know the storm I'ma bring

My hard work finally catchin' up with perfect timin'

Went from small-ass apartments to walkin' red carpets

Pissy elevators, now every dress is tailored

This some real-life fairy tale Binderella shit

I wanted to be technical. I wanted to be complex. I wanted to make my act a hard act to follow. Bottom line.

Set the game ablaze, I’m an arcade fire

I don't care about nostalgia

My best years are ahead of me (Ahead of me)

You don't like me? Bet against me

The top gets higher the more that I climb

The spot gets smaller, and I get bigger

Got the keys into my city, now she know the rides

Got new money, got new problems, got new enemies

When you make it to the top, that's the amenities

It don't matter where you're from, it's where you're at

Listen, look

Before rap my last name was my lifestyle

And when I visualize success it look like right now

What was once gray skies is now white clouds

One of the ways artists can put themselves ‘on the map’ is to stop thinking about the lines on the map.

Used to buyin' rounds, but now we buy the bar

Last year, they had to ask, now they know who we are

Made my blueprints, so my life got no ceilings (I don't see 'em)

Everybody gon' respect the shooter

But the one in front of the gun lives forever

I got power, poison, pain, and joy inside my DNA

I got hustle, though, ambition flow inside my DNA

Back in high school, I used to bus it to the dance (Yeah)

Now I hit the FBO with duffels in my hands

On a race with myself, I don't see nobody

Places that I've been, things that I have seen

What you call a nightmare, are what I have as dreams

My dad never came London to put tickets on windscreens

If it ain't greatness, what does this shit mean?

The feeling that I have when I listen to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the same feeling I want some other Black little girl to have when she listens to me.

Show 'em how to move in a room full of vultures

Aim for the stars and I shouldn't have missed

But I was riding on fumes, so I stopped by the moon

Now I'm sitting on the hood of this bitch

Like, "Thanks for the view," waiting on thanks from a few

Ridin' in the foreign, remember ridin' on MARTA

Grind got harder and my mind got smarter

Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane

No, it's the young black god livin’ out his dreams

What you mean? I been up on an ultralight beam

They don't wanna see you fly, they just gonna shoot your wings

The best rapper alive

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