Rap Quotes About Identity & Being Yourself: Page 2

My ink so hot, it burn through the journal

I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway & Myrtle

You don't wanna know what it cost to live

What it cost to hide behind eyelids

Either you ironclad or you plastic, jumped in or drafted

I think of crime when I'm in a New York State of Mind

Tell her be herself, ain't no code switchin'

I wanted to be as sinister as possible, so I bought a witchcraft book and my momma kicked me out the house when she found it.

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

I know I have a purpose, but I don't see the purpose

Nothing ever compares with the strength of a free mind

They will never wanna admit I'm the best here

From the mere fact that I've got ovaries

I can't take it, y'all! I can feel the city breathin'

Chest heavin', against the flesh of the evenin'

Kiss the odds goodbye (Peace), I'm on the last train leavin'

But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.

I got hit over the head for saying it back then. Of course, now, nobody says they’re doing Hiphop. They all say they are Hiphop.

My genes tie me to those that despised me

All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day

Put the pieces back together my way

my DNA is hip-hop. So if you check my DNA, it got Slick Rick, it got Ice Cube, and it got Rakim.

Free is when nobody else could tell us what to be

Free is when the TV ain't controllin' what we see

Allergic to the counterfeit, impartial to the politics

I could introduce you to another realm

Help you with the move

But only you can go fuck yourself

I've been official my whole life, I bought burners, I ain't buy likes (Brr)

Love me or hate me, I own it.

People call you crazy when they fear you or they don't understand you.

One thing that still gets me

When did I become a ghost? (Yeah)

Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent

Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident

Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.

Being His Excellency gets to be exhausting

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle

Don't know if I'm God's child or I'm Satan's angel

La-di-da-di, I'm going harder

Than coming out the closet to conservative Christian fathers

Best believe I’m gon’ sell (Yeah), if I just be myself

I give no man or thing power over me

The revolution's here, the revolution is personal

Check it, it's like I'm fighting for freedom, writing for freedom

These record company niggas, I don't like when I see 'em

My ancestors, when I'm writing I see 'em and talk with 'em

My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic (Hi, Marshall)

Leave that to The Artful Dodger

The broad-shouldered fifty-one percent shareholder

You won't find us on Alta Vista

Cult classic, not bestseller

The king of monotone, with my own throne

I was put here on a mission that you wouldn't understand (Oh)

I don't want no rapper friends, I'm in the ghetto with my plans (Oh)

Sometimes I wish my fanbase was more like J. Cole's

But dope boys gotta be the man like they know

Suckеd into oblivion, idolizing my future feminine

Worshipping thе woman I have to be

It's harder to love myself when all these people compliment me

Somehow it just remind me what I don't got

I'm a Black woman and I'm a proud one

See pimpin ain't made nigga pimpin ain't raised nigga

Nigga pimpin is born

Pimpin since its early dayz (right)

The human being shall cast shadows on the sun

Whenever people push me to be that kind of red carpet It-boy, I shy away from it every time. Even when I won the Mercury, I can see in my face that I didn’t want to be that guy, because you only fall down from there, innit?

If you paying too much attention to my tattoos every single day of your life, then you doing something wrong.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

Now if your heart was as big as your mouth, you'd be real

Told me I should just quit "first of all, you talk white!

Second off, you talk like you haven't given up yet"

I make hip-hop, but use DOOM as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t. You have writers that write about crazy characters but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.

I won't never sell my soul, and I can back that

Mainstream is cool but in my heart forever underground

Social media really made me. Before I got on Love & Hip Hop, I had millions of followers just off the way I speak. Just me talking.

Whatever I feel uncomfortable about, I just say it. A lot of people live by telling lies. I live by telling the truth.

I got game — I got game 'cause the game was given to me

You gotta judge a man by his principles

If I'm the strong friend, then what the fuck do that make you?!

I don't bump mainstream, I knock underground

All that other shit sugarcoated and watered down

I guess if I was boring they would love me more

Guess if I was simple in the mind, everything would be fine

Can't be crazy I got honor roll sons and daughters

Struggle with who I am and who I wanna be

Got the streets and these beats right in front of me

No name for people to call small or colonize optimism