Deep rap quotes & wisdom: Page 4

I could introduce you to another realm

Help you with the move

But only you can go fuck yourself

Long live the idols, may they never be your rivals

Pac was like Jesus, Nas wrote the Bible

With knowledge of self, there's nothing I can't solve

At 360 degrees I revolve

Everybody wanna be the boss but there’s no plan. You just supposed to follow ’cause this dude got the most stuff or the shiniest things so he must be the leader ’cause look at his car. But these are not virtues—what a man owns.

It's hard to keep a good woman down, so I keep comin'

Blow for blow, I take and I get some

Still I rise in a civilized wisdom

I used to be the type of kid that would always think the sky's fallin'

Now I think the fact that I'm differently wired's awesome

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

We survivalists turned to consumers

Bill Gates don't dangle diamonds in the face

Of peasants when he Microsoft'ing the place

Still water runs deep

So be careful of the company you keep

BMWs and gold rope chains don't impress me

Or get you closer to the point you could undress me

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

I don't make songs for free, I make 'em for freedom

Don't believe in kings, believe in the Kingdom

When the money and fame gone, tell me who stayin' with you

I don’t think I’ve learned anything—I just matured. I’m still very dumb. I know that I don’t know things, and there’s much more to learn.

My rhymin' is a vitamin held without a capsule

Analyze. That's what I do to MCs

That be talkin bout they this and that, money please

Ego. I'm on my own jock skill

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will

The best conversations—the most deep ones—are at five in the morning

Love yourself, girl, or nobody will

Said, "Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut

You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what"

The revolution's here, the revolution is personal

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal

This is the last time that I kneel and pray to the sky

'Cause almost everything that I was ever told was a lie

Chasin' after death so we can call ourselves brave?

Still livin' like mental slaves

All I did was take gangsters to church

Got your lady with literature in her Louis bag

Got your kid studying outside of class

You wanna know why I invest

All my money into haze and into dope?

‘Cause right now, I'm currently a slave for Interscope

Respect first, then money – basic shit

Street scriptures for lost souls in the crossroads

Worst enemies wanna be my best friends

I used to care what people thought, but now I care more

Man, nobody out here's got it figured out, so therefore

No matter what we grow into, we never gon' escape our past

Don’t call yourself the No. 1 MC when you have somebody writing for you. Don’t walk around here like you Jay Z or you Nas. You can’t really do that.

what you don’t want to do is fight that kind of ignorance with ignorance.

"Is your pride worth dying over?"

My recitals are vital, and may be needed for survival

Like the Bible or any other good book that you read

It is the conciousness behind the gun

That determines if the gun is positive or negative

The most beautiful thoughts are always besides the darkest

You can never be too old for hip-hop.

I don't love people enough to put my faith in man

When you bein' real you ain't worry 'bout who fake

Yeah, this your life, you can play with it

You make your bed, you gon' lay in it

Do your thing, just be safe with it

I don't know if it's the hate, frustration, or hunger

That keep a nigga going, rapping for a reason

Shit don't just don't happen, shit happens for a reason

They weren't born from the body, they were born from the soul

people are not given time to develop, they're expected to be great.

You know what I learned, let them keep talking

Uh-huh, pull up in an Azure and watch them keep walking

Elevate your mind, cause in due time you'll wine and dine

I did it because it was from the heart. I did it because I like girls, and I wanted to rap to them.

If you want romance, you should just stick who you already with (Okay)

Book smart with the bars, but I never learnt that from school (Nah)

I don’t know if anything can ever be perfect, you know? I don’t even want it to be perfect because human aren’t perfect so the music shouldn’t be.

We all fish, better teach your folk

Give him money to eat, the next week, he's broke

Releasing your truths can save you

One thing that I've learnt all of these years

Is to block devils off of my ears

'Cause fairytales don't end well

When the fame and fortune not here

So here's a temporary fix for your permanent flaws

This album helps you to RELEASE cause life is irkin us all

The human being shall cast shadows on the sun

But bein' real never once bought the groceries and

I need to know where I'm heading, 'cause I know where I've been

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.

I admit (What?), I've done some dumb shit

And I'm probably gon' do some more

You shouldn't hold that against me though (Why not?)

Why not? My music's all that I got

when you’ve been cut you don’t just cover the wound up – if you do it’s going to be dirty, rotten and festering deep inside. It hurts but you’ve got to scrape that crap the fuck out of there.

You see, if you ever wanted to ever be anything

There'd always be somebody that'll shoot down any dream

There'll always be haters, that's the way it is

Everybody insecure, especially people with everything

Why else you think they got everything?