Rap Quotes About Perseverance: Page 2

I always feel that I can improve something until I just get sick of it.

Objects appearing closer than you ready for

Obviously, you don't know what's ahead

But that's the reason you can work 'til you dead

The grain ain't enough, you gotta mix it with the leather

Your grind ain't enough, you gotta mix it with the hate

When it's all over what would I say?

I don't wanna die

I finally wanna be alive

Well, I got 25 days to do it

If a wall in the way, just watch me go through it

'Cause I gotta do what I gotta do

PE number one, gets the job done

I swear to God, man, everything in life is old

And the only thing that changed is the price of gold

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

Yo, Pep, I don't think they're gonna play this on the radio

I had to learn how to perform for a crowd who's looking at you like you ain't shit

If you live my life, you'd be fightin' to live

Of course you saw me, everybody said I was dead but I'm still alive like Makaveli

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

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

I'm a jail nigga, so I face the world like it's Earl in the bullpen

You against me, me against you (Uh, uh, uh, uh)

Fuck the world, don't ask me for shit

Everything you get you gotta work hard for 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?)

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

Because If I hada went and took the easy way

Wouldn't be the strong nigga that I am today

If I struggled to fight for myself, I had someone else to fight for.

Regardless of how it goes down

Life goes on, am I right? (Oh, oh, whoa)

I put my lifetime in between the paper's lines

I'm the quiet storm nigga who fight rhyme

P, yeah, you heard of him, but I ain't concerned with them

Still runnin' with ease, marathon, not sprint

I don't wanna run (run) no more, but I know that if I stop

I'll be another nigga headed to heaven, hanging with 'Pac

If I hadn’t met the devil here I wouldn’t realize I was strong enough to overcome the obstacles that devil placed in my path.

People wanna say it's just my time

Brothers like me had to work for mine

For the ones whose body hung from a tree like a piece of strange fruit

Go hard, last words to the firing squad was, "Fuck you too"

People wanna know how come

I got a gat and I'm lookin' out the window like Malcolm

Ready to bring that noise

Kinda trigger happy like the Geto Boys

now that it’s my time, I’m a very firm believer in that if it’s for you, it’s gon’ be for you.

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

Build, work, build, work, build, work

Fall down, fail, learn, learn, earn, earn and conquer

I been runnin' all my life, that's way before my life begun

Never let my dream die

Got a slug for the judge, bringin' heat for police

And a book full of sins that I reap when I sleep

Then I wake up and I put em on a beat, how you love that?

For all of those who wanna profile and pose

Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone

The shelf life is eternal.

Nothing ever come to those that just wait

Don't ever lose sight of your goals, just keep straight

Concrete where we rose, you wasn't built from this mold, uh

I get up, when I'm down, had enough, almost drowned

When shit rough I get tough and when I'm beaten to the ground

I will not be provoked, I will not be broken, and I’m not going back to who I used to be.

But I refuse to be another violent casualty

The iTunes Store wasn't built in a day.

I strive to be live 'cause I got no choice