Rap quotes about success

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.

I guess it took ten years for me to be an overnight success

'Cause if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck

It just means that a million people are stupid as fuck

House on both coasts, but I live on the charts

I’ll probably self-destruct if I ever lose, but I never do

We don't like to do too much explainin'

Story stayed the same, I never changed it

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis

When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this

I feel like a working-class Jay-Z, baby

Don’t listen to the people on the sidelines. Pay attention to the actual players.

Went from small-ass apartments to walkin' red carpets

Pissy elevators, now every dress is tailored

This some real-life fairy tale Binderella shit

Born sinner, the opposite of a winner

Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner

Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game

Used to sport Bally's and Cazals with black frames

Now I'm into fat chains, sex and TECs

Fly new chicks and new kicks, Heines and Beck's

Listen, look

Before rap my last name was my lifestyle

And when I visualize success it look like right now

What was once gray skies is now white clouds

I started from the basement, made it to the skyscrapers (Straight up)

Everything be good 'til you doin' better than 'em

They say success is the best revenge

So I beat DeShay up with the stack of magazines I'm in

They said by now that I'll be finished, hard to tell (I can't tell)

My little fifteen minutes lasting long as hell, huh?

Nobody gave me nothing, this is just where I landed

That’s all we’ve ever did was win and I’ve never responded to anything, because I’m the boss, and the boss ain’t got to respond. You keep winning.

See when you're shining, some chumps'll wanna dull ya

Always selfish, jealous punks will wanna pull ya–

Down, just like some shellfish in a bucket

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work—all three have to come together.

Since the last time you heard from me I lost some friends

Well, hell, me and Snoop, we dippin' again

Kept my ear to the streets, signed Eminem

He's triple platinum, doin' fifty a week

People try to compete with me – they always want to take pops at the champion.

I came from the bottom and I have risen up and I have changed but I have never forgotten.

I was on the block pitching rocks at fifteen

And I remember underage drinking at sixteen

Let my nuts hang, Cali bang at seventeen

Now I got everything, bitch, I got everything

And can I make it? Damn right, I be on the next flight

Payin' cash, first class, sitting next to Vanna White (C'mon)

We do not worship no devil, man. People ask me that shit every day. There's no way you could have had our success worshipping the devil.

You get you some newfound power and go crazy and it get taken from you quick. I try to just ground myself and be focused ‘cause it’s easy to fumble.

My Adidas walk through concert doors

And roam all over coliseum floors

I stepped on stage, at Live Aid

All the people gave, and the poor got paid

I remember back in the days when I used to have to get my stroll on

Didn't nobody wanna speak

Now everybody peepin' out they window when they hear me beatin' up the street

My best advice is to first get really, really good at one of those things. When you get really, really good at something it opens up doors that allow you to do the other things you want to do.

Bustin' out the bando (Woo)

A nigga jewelry real metal like a can opener (Bling)

I went from rags to riches to a feature with Tip (Woo)

I went from Smart Card to a bitch with some smart lips (Skrrt)

Had four bills and I bought me a car

Little red whip that I bought for my marge

This ain't my story 'bout rags to riches, more 'bout how I mastered physics (Uh-huh)

It hit harder when you come up from the bottom (On God)

Touched an M at 21, bitch, I'm a motherfuckin' problem

Have a few chains on, I don’t have but one

Bought a few houses and I never sleep at one

And I can have ten cars and I wouldn’t drive one

And when you make it from the bottom you the chosen one

Six, six, six, six, six, soon as I’m back in the city they throw a parade

I might get a key to the city and give it to Wayne

Or give it to one of the young boys to carry the wave

You know me, Cardi B, pussy poppin' on the charts, ah, ah

Ayy, I set the bar, I'm the fuckin' bar

Look in the sky, I'm a fuckin' star

I don't fall in love 'cause I be lovin' hard

You climb one mountain, you get the top of the mountain and you look off like, “Oh shit, it's a bigger mountain to climb,” but you got to climb down that mountain first and go through another valley.

It's just happiness. Happiness is success to me.

How many problems you got? (A lot)

How many people done doubted you? (A lot)

Just keep on bein' the voice, I'll be the hero

And everything I got is a profit, started with zero

Success is the best revenge

Lil' Kodak, they don't like to see you winnin'

They wanna see you in the penitentiary

That compared to Nelly numbers is considered not winning, but that's only considered not winning compared to Nelly numbers.

For a long time, I was not happy when I woke up in the morning

Sold five mil' out the gate and numbers do not lie

And I just checked my accounts, turns out, I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich

God will give you everything you want and you get all the good, but you get everything that comes with it

Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.

Flexing on bitches as hard as I can

Eating halal, driving the Lam'

Made a lot of cheese, people say I changed

But if you thinking this you never knew me from the gate mane

Now Ma$e be the man wanna see you doing good

I don't wanna get rich, leave you in the hood

Wins and the losses, it come with being bosses

We used to be number ten, now we're permanent at one

Not greedy or livin' lavish yet, but you can bet

That when I do, nobody from my crew will I forget

I didn’t like that I had money and success and I had made it and everybody that I had ever met in my life—good people—weren’t able to experience the same.

Little else can rival freedom for me.