Rap Quotes About Growth & Change

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

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

Know the wolves that hunt you

In time, they will be the dogs that bring your slippers

Love them right and you will feel them kiss you when they come to bite

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

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Ones that hate us, handcuff us and mace us

Call us dumb niggas 'cause our culture is contagious

Third-generation South Central gangbangers

That lived long enough to see it changin'

Far from the rest, but I’m far from my best

Life is a lesson, I'm passin' a test

I'm only nineteen, but my mind is older

When the things get for real, my warm heart turns cold

But I've been workin' on myself and that's the most important work, even if you don't get paid for it, shit

My heart's an open sore that I hope heals soon

Some move away to make a way, not move away 'cause they afraid

Routine day with a dirt cheap brush

Then a week goes by and it goes untouched

Then two, then three, then a month

And the rest of your life, you beat yourself up

I always used to put my good days on paper

And kept my bad days secret. So here's some of my bad days as well

You just chase your dreams

You don't even take the time to sleep

But don't forget to breathe

Talking to my shadow, he advised me not to worry

Said, I should plant my tree and let it rise out of the fury

And I was drownin', but now I'm swimmin'

It’s because, in action, the majority of people prefer comfort rather than progression. In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle.

Got faith in the vessel but know when to keep rowin''

Yeah and get up out your own way when deliverin' a poem

I don't care about nostalgia

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

Look, I was in the street with the shooters

Then I swapped my beef for a future

Used to make my mama cry, but now I make her proud

You'll find a lesson in your pain

It didn't get easier as I got bigger. I just got tougher skin

Came a long way from extension cords in the window

Borrow neighbor's power just to plug up the Nintendo

I'm way too different to treat the same

You still playing, I already beat the game

Five women I grew up with gave me strong vision

Became the man of the house and replaced the man missing

That's when you saw mummy's boy and saw there's a dad in him

Ridin' in the foreign, remember ridin' on MARTA

Grind got harder and my mind got smarter

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I’m always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

The thing is, I can only give what I’m feeling. I’m interested in discovery. If there’s not any discovery, it doesn’t feel real to me.

Can I sleep for a while?

Can I work on myself?

people are not given time to develop, they're expected to be great.

Releasing your truths can save you

I keep my head above the water (Water)

My eyes gettin' bigger, so the world is gettin' smaller (Smaller)

when you’ve been cut you don’t just cover the wound up – if you do it’s going to be dirty, rotten and festering deep inside. It hurts but you’ve got to scrape that crap the fuck out of there.

My life meant something. My trying times, my fucked-up times in this world has meant something. I wasn’t just here.

What happened to Drake from 2009

When all of the moments was intimate?

What happened to Drake with the innocence?

I don't think we'll be seein' him again

Money comes and it goes 'til family's all I got left

I'm seeing my growth, but I'm still from myself

There's more to life than sleeping in and getting high with you

I'm an emotional person, man! I never used to be

I just used to be fucking mad angry and just wanna hurt people

Now, I wanna love people, empower people to feel good

When we were 25-year-olds, we had to have the minds of 50-year-olds! We grew up a lot more quickly, because of all the bad things that we saw.

Yeah, I was put here to lead the lost souls

Exhale depression as the wind blows

It's no rewinding, for the umpteenth time, it's only forward

That’s when I decided I’ma speak what I wanna see.

I ain't no perfect man

I'm tryin' to do the best that I can with what it is I have

I had to break down myself, lay a new foundation, and take the best parts of myself that I had and build. And build it stronger, build it more efficient, and build it with happiness.

I ain't Dizzee, I'm just a boy in a corner

the arts, you should get better — you should be more curious. I mean, I would argue that Picasso got better. Miles Davis got better.

Ultimately, you'll always be wounded in some type of way and then you'll always heal.

getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using, I wasn’t growing as a person.

Wanna see you happy, even if it's not with me (Not with me) (Yeah, yeah, uh)

In my heart, I mean well, but if You'll help me to grow

Then what I have in my heart, will begin to show

You never lived in your truth, I'm just happy I lived in it

But I finally found peace, so peace (Gone)

I'm not really focusing on perfection, but just showing up

No more Rollies, I'm just buying more properties

Young niggas watching me, give 'em that game properly

I don’t want nobody gassing me up 24/7. How you gon’ make me the best version of myself if you’re just pretending everything is gold?

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

I don't love who I am, so I'm workin' on a fix

I thought Jordans and a gold chain was livin' it up

And the curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith

No more runnin' or slidin' in the dirt, 'cause I'm safe

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