Rap Quotes About Identity & Being Yourself: Page 3

In a world full of alt-rights, I was left field

Black man born poor, I was black steel

Black man born free, this how blessed feel

Because my dreams are dreams, don't make them less real

Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent

With N.W.A., I think our biggest legacy is that we made it alright for you to say whatever you wanted to say on your record, and be whoever you wanted to be on your record.

I was bred for this from birth. My mother has a picture of me in a onesie putting a needle to a turntable

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

The goal here is to be as much me as possible

I feel like I'm out of my mind

It feel like my life ain't mine (Who can relate? Woo)

Young black brotha can never be a lover

He keeps a joint in one hand and heem in the other

Yo, what becomes of a dream deferred

That never makes it to the world to be seen or heard

I’ve never been the braggadocious, cocky MC on the mic. I’ve always been the one laid back and played my position.

Why you ready to die? You just a baby

I love this country but I feel like we're losing sight of who actually holds the power and what makes us great: it's the communities, the small places that are forgotten, everyone that's striving

I'm from the back woods where Nina would

Sing about the life we should lead

A new dawn, another deed, I try to do some good

I felt more damned than Mississippi was

I'm the R, the A to the K-I-M

If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

Rarely out my element, barely out the ghetto with

One foot out and one foot in, intelligent as fellas get

Oh, since I was young, been grooving to my own drum

Ain't that many teachers show me my potential

Felt like a failure, Mama said, "You know better"

Future in my hands, God, she had a plan

I don’t believe I’m the savior of hip-hop or bringing hip-hop back or anything like that — I just feel like it’s me doing me!

Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field—it requires some guts.

I got to a space where I don't give a fuck what people think I should sound like, look like, or do

I can't play by anybody else's rules

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

It don't matter what you look like — your race, your style, if you're cute or fucking ugly. None of that shit matter when it comes down to the music

I never really liked all the fake shit

But I'm attracted to the fake ass and fake tits

That's why I made a song like original

To remind me of what fake is

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

I was becoming less of myself to fit the box [the bullies] wanted me in, and that wasn’t truly who I was.

you can’t just jump on some wave, either, you know what I mean? You can’t bastardize somebody else’s shit. You have to take informed risks, I guess. Calculated risks.

My style don't pump no blood

It pump weed and gasoline, Nicky Nickitine

For real

E'rybody's a star, e'rybody shine

Follow your heart and not mankind

I'm a little bit of Country

I'm a little bit of Rock and Roll

And I'm soul to soul

I woke up this morning and decided I don't expect for you to understand my shit, if you're not hip-hop

New slaves, but I'm still the master

I don't say much, but I hear everything that is said

It don't go over my head

Consumers need to go back to the days when they would stop in front of an object for a long time because they loved it.

Tell these black kids they could be who they are

Dye your hair blue, shit, I'll do it too (What the fuck, nigga?)

Hidin' like thieves in the night from life

Illusions of oasis makin' you look twice

8Ball and MJG was the soulful side of Memphis, and Three 6 Mafia was the mad, younger side.

We're just two lost souls, but we're fine with it

Yo, I can't get mad 'cause you look at me

'Cause on the real, look at me

Anything I say or do, I don’t take back, I don’t regret.

I'm a fuckin' walkin' paradox, no, I'm not

Freedom ain't a function it's a mode

I think being humble is sexy.

Ain't a hood nigga, but a nigga from the ho-od

See, mama stayed on me, so I turned out pretty go-od

MCs ain't ready to take it to the Serengeti

My rhymes is heavy like the mind of sister Betty (El Shabazz!)

One day I realized that I’m not living anybody else’s life but mine. I feel like people try to live other people’s lives or worry about what other people think about their life. That’s not the way to live at all.

You know the reasons, but still'll never know my life

Kendrick a.k.a. "Compton's Human Sacrifice"

I'm so London, I'm so south

Food in the ends like there ain't no drought

It's a great feeling to not box yourself into anyone’s limitations or ideas or judgments.

I'ma double my W's working

Everything that you see in these verses

Is the same when you see me in person

Don’t ever call me a Rapper.. IM AN ARTIST!!!!!

At school you dropped Math, Science and History

And then you get on the mic and try to act smart

The internet ain't gon' help you, understand me

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first, it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring.

Give me everything, take it all away

Lock me up and then throw away the key

Kick me down and then talk about my state

I'm not out of place, I'm from outer space

I think you become a real artist when you stamp on shit instead putting what’s the wave.

Most people stop for signs but I've driven through it

The chosen one from the land of the frozen sun

Where drunk nights get remembered more than sober ones

This the remedy, the separation

2Pac of my generation, blue pill in the fuckin' Matrix

Red rose in the gray pavement

So eat this black music and tell me how it taste now

You will never fit, you're a misfit

You're a quiet voice no matter how loud you get