Rap Quotes About Identity & Being Yourself: Page 4

You betta stop trippin on dem stereotypes

Cause in the ghetto there's a good life

Don't you try to downplay my name (Name)

You're "and others" if I crash this plane (Plane)

Hated recess, I don't play no games

Log 'em off the web and every gangsta's giving actress

Gangsta's giving actress and all these fake activists

'Cause being trill is an onomatopoeia

Be about it like a G, a hater wanna catch you slipping

Try to be a Jordan (Jordan), but settle for a Pippen"

(Yeah, yeah) I'm one slimy motherfucker (Yeah, yeah), the devil ride my back like camels

Don't allow anybody to project any stereotypes on you that tell you that you can't be here, that you're too dark, or that you're not smart enough, or that you're too dramatic, or you're too loud. You are exactly who you need to be.

Niggas be weak, I'm concrete like Benjamin Grimm (Uh-huh)

It's a very thin line between a foe and a friend

How can I convince you I'm not the villain?

Be the truest form of yourself. If you go with what everybody else is doing you may risk falling into the crevices and the cracks, because there's so many people doing the same thing.

Rappers act so wild, and love to profile

Frontin' hard but they ain't got no style

I am the future of black America.

And out of speakers I did speak

I wore my sneakers but I'm not a sneak

I could shake my ass, I could be the most ratchet-est person ever, I could get into a fight tomorrow, but I’m still a great mom.

People who are in hip-hop are invested in the culture, and the minute you fuck with it, it’s like you’re fucking with their biochemistry, you’re fucking with their lifeline.

I'm an angel in the sky

I look down on the drive by's

When Bush was president, Hiphop culture was thriving because people felt threatened. When Clinton got into office, people no longer felt threatened, so we went into the bling-bling age.

White men run this, they don't want this kind of passion (Talk)

A black woman story, they don't want this kind of rapping (Talk)

I don't mean to be mean

But that's all I can be, it's just me

I was an athlete in college—a quarterback, a leader—so people telling me what to do doesn’t work.

When you teach her that ho mentality

They accept that as reality

I done sat with the mayor and politicians, I'm tryna change the image

You can't blame my past no more, I come from the trenches

Some said I'd never be a superstar, but I know I'm different (No, no, no)

I hit 'em with the music from the slaves

Oh my goodness, what my ancestors gave

Let them have their fun, ya know? Stop being so critical of everything they do. They’re having fun. Even if you don’t like their music and shit. Respect the hustle.

Know exactly what I want for me, you cats is clueless, though