Rap Quotes About Dreams & Ambition: Page 3

The ambition is to be number one so you can experience the sensation in your ego of being number one.

I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.

I took big risks, now I'm a big fish

A billion dollars at the top of my to-do list

Success is the best revenge

All my life I want money and power

Respect my mind or die from lead shower

I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

I want to be remembered as someone that had an idea… someone that did it his way… someone that loved music and pushed a genre

[I want] people to see this and realize if you are young, black, and British, you can 100 percent excel in whatever lane you want

I can’t stand when motherfuckers half-ass it. That’s why I work so hard.

Might not just be the best, just know I plan to be

In kindergarten I'd say I wanted to be a rapper

And people'd just laugh at me. That's a pretty funny job, they'd say

nobody in the world could have told me I wasn’t gonna be a rapper. So, yeah, I always knew I was gonna be one.

On Doomsday, ever since the womb

'Til I'm back where my brother went, that's what my tomb will say

Right above my government; Dumile

Either unmarked or engraved; hey, who's to say?

It was visionary, either I'm genius or you niggas scary

Maybe it's both, and this balance I deliver daily

For every nigga in these streets tryna feed the babies

The single mamas working hard not to miss a payment

Diamonds is Mediterranean

This for the ones who abandoned me

My heart is so full of some anger

All of you niggas in danger

The worst thing that can happen is people don’t like it. To me, that’s a win: Someone can not like your music and not give you some money

When Nipsey braided his hair, he was trying to be AI? When AI braided his, he trying to be Snoop? When Snoop braided his, he Harriet Tubman?

Villain here, have 'em shrillin' in fear

And won't stop top illin' 'til he a gazillionaire

Still ain't trippin', love to see young blacks get money

Spend time out the hood, take they moms out the hood

Hit my boys off with jobs, no more livin' hard (Nah, nah)

Ain't no time like the present, leave the past and excuses

It's a marathon, not a sprint, but I still gotta win the race, yeah

I'm tryna win, don't care how I do it, just know that I did it

I don’t care for numbers, I only care for craft. I don’t pay attention to them.

Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly

I keep my mind on my money, money on my mind

I'm in my own lane, you ain't in my categor'

You like a RAV4, I’m like the Aventador

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

We never gone lose if we handle this business

Took a turn on the road to the riches

Left my heart in the curb in the trenches

Everything that I want is expensive

Because nobody knows your vision better than you do. Nobody can tell your story as you can. You have to live it.

Started off on ground zero, then I start to levitate

I grew tall overnight, I woke up one day a man

My biggest fear was losin' it all

Scared to spend money, had me sleepin' from hall to hall

Scared to go back to Section 8 with my mama stressin'

Thirty shows a month and I still won't buy me no Lexus

Still runnin' with ease, marathon, not sprint

if you want my platform, take your bougie Black ass and get to practicing your bars motherfucker.

I’m ambitious but my ambition is not fame

You could say I was feeding my ego and building a style at the same time.

Ever since the womb, I've been a tycoon

'Til the roof comes off, 'til the lights go out

'Til my legs give out, can't shut my mouth

'Til the smoke clears out, am I high? Perhaps

It's gon' take more than a bullet in the heart to hold me back

Better pass the mic in the afterlife

If so, let me spit flows, good enough to offer to God as a sacrifice

I was clawing my way back. I was snatching victory out of the jaws of defeat.

I foregoed the crime and I focused on rhyme

Focused on every word and line

Like a young Cassius Clay in his prime

I was born to talk shit and prove mine, and I'm

Fuck modest, fuck polished, fuck the politics

I pledge allegiance to the motherfuckin' profit, bitch

I know my great, great, great aunty was a slave (I know)

I could only imagine all the sacrifice she made (I can only imagine)

I could only imagine all the shit she had to take (I can only imagine)

I'ma make sure all the blood she gave wasn't in vain (Damn)

And I'd like to give a shout out to my niggas with a game plan

And shout outs all my niggas with escape plans

I’m excited for the future of the label, because I am the future of the label.

I always say Jay-Z and others that come before me, was like a snow plow for people like myself. They made it easier to walk through the snow storm. I want to continue to be a snow plow for the next generation coming behind me.

I can't tell you where I'm goin', just know I won't stop

Goodbye to the bottom (Yeah), hello to the top, yeah

So you can kiss my black ass

Fuck the White House, it ain't my house

So you can burn the motherfucker down for all I care

Cause t-shirts and khakis is all I wear

Thinkin' of a master plan

'Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand

So I dig into my pocket, all my money spent

Nigga still hungry, black Kobayashi

All young people want to be old one day. That’s the dream career. If the Rolling Stones can get up there and still do it at 80, then why can’t rappers?

Got a lot to be a man about, got a lot to pop a xan about

I used to rock hand-me-downs and now I rock standing crowds

A lot of people did say I was ahead of my time, especially back then. The times have finally caught up now.

There are two types of people. Those who think they have to do a variety of things but are not able to handle a single one of them, and those who excel in one particular area and thus can enter any other field freely.

I gotta make it, I better make it

I promise if I'm not dead, then I'm dedicated

But in telling these stories, you bring the village with you.

Never let my dream die

We used to be number ten, now we're permanent at one

I've been working this grave-shift

And I ain't made shit (Yeah, yeah)

I wish I could (Me, too) buy me a spaceship and fly (I swear I do)