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UK rap quotes
Every UK line in the library rated 3.5 or higher is on this page: 37 quotes from 11 artists. 34 are lyrics and 3 are interview lines. Rather than cut so few lines into thin decade sections, the page is organised by artist, ordered by the year each began releasing records. By release decade the dated lyrics split 3 from the 2000s, 27 from the 2010s and 4 from the 2020s.
Dave, Stormzy and Little Simz have the most lines, and the themes that come up most are identity, growth and wit. Next to the Southern rap quotes page, growth shows up in 19% of the lines here against 0% there and identity shows up in 22% of the lines here against 10% there; wisdom goes the other way, 32% there against 16% here (a line can carry more than one theme). The songs with the most lines here are Black by Dave (4) and Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest (3). The top-rated short line is “I'm Jay-Z on a bad day, Shakespeare on my worst days” (Little Simz, Offence, 2018).
An artist counts as UK when our artist data lists that scene. We would rather show a short page than pad it, so it grows as more UK artists are added. No line appears on more than two of the region, decade and old school pages, and no two of them share more than a quarter of their quotes.
Skepta
Like hmm, my mum don't know your mum, stop telling man you're my cousin
The streets at an all-time high, the government at an all-time low
My dad never came London to put tickets on windscreens
If it ain't greatness, what does this shit mean?
Kae Tempest
Know the wolves that hunt you
In time, they will be the dogs that bring your slippers
Love them right and you will feel them kiss you when they come to bite
When time pulls lives apart
Hold your own
When everything is fluid, nothing can be known with any certainty
Hold your own
Happiness, the brand, is not happiness
We are smarter than they think we are
They take us all for idiots, but that's their problem
When we behave like idiots, it becomes our problem
"If you bring forth what is within you
What you bring forth will save you
But if you do not bring forth what is within you
What you do not bring forth will destroy you"
Little Simz
I'm Jay-Z on a bad day, Shakespeare on my worst days
One day, I'm wordless, next day, I'm a wordsmith
Close to success, but to happiness, I'm the furthest
Never givin' credit where it's due 'cause you don't like pussy in power
Negative at heart, am I?
Or shall I explain what the world done to me?
My career is very important to me, but it's not my life.
They will never wanna admit I'm the best here
From the mere fact that I've got ovaries
Stormzy
Your postcode don't make you a gangster, you're not bad your area is
We all knew Michael Jackson, we all knew Amy Winehouse, because they told us everything in their music. To be the artist that I want to be, I’ve got to be vulnerable.
Spend time in my sneaks or spend a night in my thoughts
You walk a mile in these, I walk a mile in yours
You just chase your dreams
You don't even take the time to sleep
But don't forget to breathe
This year, I learnt how to take care of business
Next year, I'll learn how to play the guitar
Look, I was in the street with the shooters
Then I swapped my beef for a future
You're getting way too big for your boots
You're never too big for the boot
Dave
Loud in our laughter, silent in our sufferin'
One eye on my opps, two eyes on my friends
'Cause at least with my opps, man knows their intentions
The scene turned on me, people tryna ruin me
Where most would see a problem, I'm seein' an opportunity
To drop a freestyle and kill them niggas that were booin' me
Far from the rest, but I’m far from my best
Life is a lesson, I'm passin' a test
I can't lie
You're a gem and I ain't even talking 'bout the star sign
It's workin' twice as hard as the people you know you're better than
You see our gold chains and our flashy cars
I see a lack of self-worth and I see battle scars
He has to be with twenty man when he wears jewellery
And you see it as gangster, I see it as insecurity
It's like I'm happy for a second then I'm sad again
And to my fans, the reason I could get to this
You're my drug, the instrumental my therapist
Black is bein' guilty until proven that you're innocent
Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent
Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident
More artists
Just when I discover the meaning of life, they change it
Went from daddy's little girl to daddy's heart attack
I don't care about nostalgia
My best years are ahead of me (Ahead of me)
Five women I grew up with gave me strong vision
Became the man of the house and replaced the man missing
That's when you saw mummy's boy and saw there's a dad in him
I always used to put my good days on paper
And kept my bad days secret. So here's some of my bad days as well
Love at first sight, love at first scroll