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256 Sensational Rap Quotes For Instagram
Love rap? So do I! Especially when we need to get our hustle on.
I’ve created this list of epic rap quotes for your Instagram profile. If you need that *perfect* caption, then I’ve got you covered.
Here are the best rap quotes for social media:
1. A goal is just a dream with a deadline.
Drake
2. Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet.
Dr. Dre
3. I’m an ordinary person but I’m paid.
Lil Boosie
4. Speak the truth even if your voice shakes.
Iggy Azalea
5. I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!
Jay-Z
6. You could be the king, but watch the queen conquer.
Nicki Minaj
7. All I do is get better.
Trippie Redd
8. I’m doing pretty good as far as geniuses go.
KaNye West
9. I be there for you, I will care for you.
Drake
10. Damn right I like the life I live because I went from negative to positive.
The Notorious B.I.G.
11. If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.
Eminem
12. I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.
Wiz Khalifa
13. Can’t forget that I’m golden, can’t forget where I’m going.
ASAP Rocky
14. If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.
Lecrae
15. It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.
Chris Brown
16. Rapping just gave me something to do versus the streets.
21 Savage
17. It’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success.
J. Cole
18. I’ve been through all the bad parts of the streets.
Lil Baby
19. Only God can judge me.
Tupac
20. Life is too short to live the same day twice. So, each new day make sure you live your life.
Machine Gun Kelly
21. I cannot see heaven being much better than this.
Drake
22. If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
Snoop Dogg
23. How you look so perfect on your worst days?
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
24. Everyday is a new opportunity to reach that goal.
Rick Ross
25. Stop the negativity and control our creativity.
KRS-One
26. I’m too loyal and too focused to be losing and be hopeless.
Tyga
27. Live in the lead but work hard like your trying to catch up.
Meek Mill
28. How many people you bless, is how you measure success.
Rick Ross
29. Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Ice Cube
30. I get those goosebumps every time you come around. You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine.
Travis Scott
31. Get rich or die trying.
50 Cent
32. You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.
Nas
33. Kept breaking promises you said you would keep, so you can leave a message at the beep.
Mac Miller
34. I look up to myself, trying get better. Always try a get better.
Lil Durk
35. All of my kindness, is taken for weakness.
KaNye West
36. Nothing can stop me, I’m all the way up.
Fat Joe
37. Money and power don’t change you, they just further expose your true self.
Jay-Z
38. The question isn’t do he love ya the question is, do ya love yourself? You give the best advice to your friends and not take it for yourself.
Big Sean
39. Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it’s in your gut, your soul, there’s nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.
Kanye West
40. You can not change the past but you can change the future.
Immortal Technique
41. Don’t be afraid to close your eyes and dream but then open your eyes and see.
Sean Combs
42. I like when money makes a difference but don’t make you different.
Drake
43. Let the music diffuse all the tension.
Nas
44. It seems like blessings keep falling in my lap.
Chance The Rapper
45. What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.
Billie Eilish
46. Never become so involved with something that it blinds you.
Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.
DMX
47. Never give up and never conform.
2 Chainz
48. I got some weight on my shoulders, to me it’s like feathers.
Lil Wayne
49. You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.
Eminem
50. If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.
The Notorious B.I.G.
51. All I want to do, is be more like me, and less like you.
Linkin Park
52. I have less compassion than the average human.
50 Cent
53. Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.
Pitbull
54. Never assume you know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you heard it straight from the source.
Chris Brown
55. We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.
KaNye West
56. Sometimes it’s hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart, and hope it all goes well.
Mac Miller
57. So the next time you feel like the world’s about to end, I hope you studied, because he’s testing your faith again.
Kendrick Lamar
58. Stop, collaborate and listen.
Vanilla Ice
59. You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.
SNoop Dogg
60. Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption. For the sins committed before revelation.
Carlos Salinas
61. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac
62. I’m just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.
Aesop Rock
63. My team good, we don’t really need a mascot.
Drake
64. They’re gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
Mac Miller
65. The thing that makes me different from any other rapper is that I usually talk real crazy in my songs.
Lil Uzi Vert
66. Money don’t change you, it changes the people around you.
Bow Wow
67. I’ve been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.
Drake
68. Don’t let the sadness from the past and the fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.
Wiz Khalifa
69. Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust God.
Kendrick Lamar
70. Sunny days wouldn’t be so special, if it wasn’t for rain. Joy wouldn’t feel so good, if it wasn’t for pain.
50 Cent
71. To me, I’m on a whole different level of rapping.
Lil Baby
72. You know it’s funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.
Tupac
73. I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
Ice Cube
74. I remember the love right after the fights. You can’t tell me you don’t remember those nights.
Lil Wayne
75. When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don’t say that to brag, I just want to be an example.
Big Sean
76. It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none.
Snoop Dogg
77. All I do is win win win no matter what.
DJ Khaled
78. Life without knowledge is death in disguise.
Talib Kweli
79. When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.
Young Thug
80. I don’t got time to be wasting my time.
Meek Mill
81. Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the ‘hood.
Gucci Mane
82. Jump regardless of the consequence, cause even on the night of the apocalypse, everybody’s an optimist.
Tonedeff
83. Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.
Wale
84. Life can always change, you have to adjust.
Drake
85. Make a business for yourself, boy, set some goals. Make a fat diamond out of dusty coals.
Outkast
86. Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
Talib Kweli
87. My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding, and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.
Busta Rhymes
88. The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn’t get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.
Drew
89. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are. While your reputation is what others merely think you are.
Jay Z
90. Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless Snakes slither in the grass spineless.
Eminem
91. Never let a couple of good memories make you move backwards. Look ahead and move on.
Chris Brown
92. Don’t fall for fake people. They’re often disguised as people close to you.
Big Les
93. A goal is just a dream with a deadline.
Drake
94. Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.
Lil Wayne
95. I’m the hottest rapper in the game right now. Word.
Soulja Boy
96. Stop lookin’ at what you ain’t got, and start being thankful for what you do got.
T.I.
97. I’ll give you all of me until there’s nothing left.
Childish Gambino
98. No law’s gonna change us, we have to change us.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
99. I never want to grow up.
Tyler The Creator
100. If it ain’t making me money, making me better or making me happy… ain’t making time for it.
50 Cent
101. Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
Jay-Z
102. Remember one thing through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out. Keep your head up, and handle it.
Tupac
103. Life is a test and everyday we got so much fail.
Kodak Black
104. Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Mos Def
105. Stay loyal to your creativity because it’s a gift.
Pharrell Williams
106. I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.
Sean Combs
107. I think once you know who your man is, and you know his wants and his desires and things like that, and you let him play his position, everything else is just gonna fall into place.
Remy Ma
108. The sooner you realize things will never be the same, the sooner you can move on.
Kid Cudi
109. It’s funny how the blessed ones had the most curses.
Juice WRLD
110. I’m just doing me, and to me, that’s what got me this far.
Lil Uzi Vert
111. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.
Kanye West
112. Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It’s a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.
Chance The Rapper
113. I got hustle, though ambition flow, inside my DNA.
Kendrick Lamar
114. People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it’s actually the good ones that drive you insane.
Kid Cudi
115. A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
Jay-Z
116. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.
Eminem
117. Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Eminem
118. Everyone has an addiction. Mine happens to be you.
Andre 3000
119. Are you willing to give up what you love for who you love?
Big Sean
120. Rap is a gimmick, but I’m for the hip-hop, the culture.
Method Man
121. My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.
Mystikal
122. My mama always used to tell me: if you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.
Tupac
123. There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don’t know how.
Childish Gambino
124. Sky is the limit… and you know that you can have what you want, be what you want.
The Notorious B.I.G.
125. I would say that I’m more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.
Drake
126. A normal life is boring.
Eminem
127. We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.
The Notorious B.I.G.
128. This twisted cat and mouse game always starts the same. First we’re both down to play and somehow you go astray.
Iggy Azalea
129. Learn life, before life learn you.
Jadakiss
130. The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.
Immortal Technique
131. I can see you’re sad even when you smile, even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes.
Eminem
132. Why be a king when you can be a God?
Eminem
133. Cherish these nights, cherish these people. Life is a movie, but there’ll never be a sequel.
Nicki Minaj
134. I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.
KaNye West
135. Why do we try so hard to fit in, when we were born to stand out?
Machine Gun Kelly
136. Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket.
Pharrell Williams
137. The life you live is more important than the words you speak.
Mac Miller
138. I really didn’t want to rap; I was just a regular kid.
Lil Uzi Vert
139. When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.
Dr. Dre
140. You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you.
Jay-Z
141. Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
Snoop Dogg
142. I think music should be free. I think all communication should be free. I think people should respect artists, and there should be a certain respect for artists who give their music away for free.
KRS-One
143. Every saint got a past, every sinner got a future. Every loser gotta win, and every winner gotta lose someday.
J. Cole
144. Although rap is about boasting, it’s also about honesty and expressing your emotions.
Keith Stanfield
145. Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain’t nowhere to go but up, baby.
Ludacris
146. I wanted to become a rapper after I got shot. I rapped before, but I ain’t want to be no rapper.
21 Savage
147. I will keep on hurdling and keep on hustling.
Gucci Mane
148. You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Ice Cube
149. If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.
Aesop Rock
150. I am obsessed with rap music – it’s such a big part of my life.
Randall Park
151. Our work is never over.
KaNye West
152. To my beautiful sister I heard you wanna be a singer. Well anything’s possible. You’re too young for them boys. So, stay focused and follow your dreams. Trust me anything’s possible.
Remy Banks
153. I’ll be happy when I wake up and I have a free mind.
G Herbo
154. Whatever you goin’ through, could always be much worse,
Don’t make a mistake, mistakin’ your blessings for a curse.
Joe Budden
155. This industry is 90 percent business 10 percent talent.
Pitbull
156. Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
Ice Cube
157. People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.
Eminem
158. Even though you’re fed up, you got to keep ya head up.
Tupac
159. I ain’t got nothing to prove to nobody.
NBA Youngboy
160. If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
Kendrick Lamar
161. Take it from a man that loves what you got and baby girl you’re a star, don’t let ’em tell you you’re not.
J. Cole
162. Be careful what you say to someone today. Because tomorrow they might not be here, and you can’t take it back.
Wiz Khalifa
163. Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
Kurt Cobain
164. I wanted you to know, whenever you are around, can’t speak, I can’t speak.
Childish Gambino
165. I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Eminem
166. ’m hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.
Sean Combs
167. Rather lose love than to move on never knowing what it felt like.
Wale
168. We love it where we from, but we kick it where we at.
Ladybug Mecca
169. Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.
Tupac
170. Scared money don’t make no money!
Gucci Mane
171. I got a boss mentality.
Lil Baby
172. I’m willing to go the extra kilometer just to see my senorita get her pillow. On the side of my bed where no girl ever stayed.
Outkast
173. You might not have a car or big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.
Snoop Dogg
174. Cause whatever you love can be taken away, so live like it’s your dying day.
Machine Gun Kelly
175. I just create. I don’t have expectations. I just make music.
21 Savage
176. Never lose, never choose to.
The Notorious B.I.G.
177. All these Lil’ rappers, I’m just kind of getting real irritated by it. I said, ‘You know what? Drop the Lil’. Forget it. I’m Bow Wow.
Bow Wow
178. We ain’t picture perfect but we worth the picture still.
J. Cole
179. The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most.
Drake
180. I don’t want to just be fully rapping my whole life.
Meek Mill
181. Love is not just a verb, it’s you looking in the mirror.
Kendrick Lamar
182. No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool’s best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it.
Carlos Wallace
183. Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.
Rick Ross
184. Sometimes if you’re lucky, someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill.
Snoop Dogg
185. I liberate minds with my music.
KaNye West
186. People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial.
Nicki Minaj
187. I’m battling with myself and every day it’s a war.
Ludacris
188. As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
Fat Joe
189. I will either find a way or make a way.
Gucci Mane
190. Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.
Kid Cudi
191. You don’t wanna hear the truth, so I’ma lie to you…make it sound fly to you.
Cee-Lo
192. If you push yourself to stay hungry, you’re always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you’re taking steps forward, then you’re making progress.
2 Chainz
193. Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.
Dr. Dre
194. I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole
195. Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
Wiz Khalifa
196. I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That’s how powerful music can be.
Bow Wow
197. You gotta be able to smile through the bullshit.
Tupac
198. Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem. Baby girl, respect is just a minimum.
Lauryn Hill
199. Luck is just bein’ prepared all the time, so when the door opens, you’re ready.
Nipsey Hussle
200. She the queen in my life, and I’mma make sure she gon’ shine again, She taught me everything.
Snoop Dogg
201. No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile.
Mac Miller
202. I’m out here trying to promote positivity on a global scale.
Lil Yachty
203. One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.
Lil Uzi Vert
204. Good things come in good time.
Wiz Khalifa
205. Try to be the king, but the ace is back.
Dr. Dre
206. Rap was always a pipe dream for me, but rap was all I had. Because really, what was I going to do with my life? I had a young daughter. Kim and I were always either getting evicted or our house was getting shot up or robbed.
Eminem
207. …But until then, I’ma shine to the last sin,
Resurrect through the birth of my son, and live again.
Tragedy Khadafi
208. One minute you’re an amateur, knowing nothing, not even the basics. The next you can put pen to paper, write a song, and create art in such little time! It’s crazy beautiful.
Scott McGoldrick
209. I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.
Anderson East
210. I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
KaNye West
211. On the hustle to see six figures or more, whether rappin’ or pimpin’ hoes.
Ludacris
212. My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
Kendrick Lamar
213. Love yourself and never let the hate get to you.
NBA YoungBoy
214. Pay attention to whom your energy increases and decreases around. That’s the universe giving you a hint of who you should embrace and who you should keep away from.
Diddy
215. I work hard making music – that’s how I earn a living.
Dr. Dre
216. Behind me is infinite power. Before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity. My strength is mental, physical and spiritual.
50 Cent
217. We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.
Drake
218. Ain’t no pretending, we live like this no acting.
NBA Youngboy
219. My lyrics aren’t offensive. Some people find everything offensive.
Tyler The Creator
220. I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me – so much drama.
Gucci Mane
221. Living well eliminates the need for revenge.
Kanye West
222. All that I ever dreamed off was fucking a thug. So I could bust a few sluggs and sell a little drugs.
Remy Ma
223. Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
Nas
224. For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.
Tupac
225. I am humble enough to know I’m not better than everyone else BUT wise enough to know I’m DIFFERENT!
Bow Wow
226. The hardest part of ending is starting again.
Linkin Park
227. You need to sweat yourself. Don’t sweat nobody else.
Busta Thymes
228. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
Eric Thomas
229. You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight.
Jay-Z
230. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks as long as you’re happy.
Hopsin
231. In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can’t do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.
Pharrell Williams
232. My approach is just fearless. I’m not afraid to try anything.
Stormzy
233. He worked hard for the money, but it ain’t about cash. Life is the schoolyard. I ain’t getting picked last.
Donald Glover
234. Everybody wanna shine. Nobody wanna grind.
Kodak Black
235. Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
Dr. Dre
236. Just because you breathing that don’t mean you living.
NBA YoungBoy
237. I’d rather die before I come in last.
Playboi Carti
238. I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop’s outcast, or hip-hop’s stepson.
Joe Budden
239. I ain’t a rapper; I’m a motivational speaker. I don’t do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.
Young Jezzy
240. Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like apologizing for being real.
Lil Wayne
241. The old way of coming up in the game is over.
Lil Yachty
242. It happens all the time, they take your heart and steal your life, and it’s as though you feel you’ve died, Cause you’ve been killed inside. But yet you’re alive, which means you’ll survive.
Eminem
243. Even if you don’t like me, you know me because I’m just in your face.
Stormzy
244. Gotta go through the worst to get the best.
NBA Youngboy
245. I’d shoot for the moon but I’m too busy gazing at stars.
Eminem
246. Our music chemistry is crazy but our bond and love for each other is what I adore most.
Remy Ma
247. 99 Problems is almost a deliberate provocation to simpleminded listeners.
Jay-Z
248. I want the finer things in my life, so I hustle.
50 Cent
249. I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.
2 Chainz
250. If they don’t appreciate you, they don’t deserve you.
NBA Youngboy
251. Success is about being relevant. People talking about you. Now there’s a different way of judging success. As long as you make money, that’s what it comes down to. The game has changed.
Big Sean
252. If you’re tired, you’re tired; if you snooze you lose.
Ludacris
253. Even the genius asks his questions.
Tupac
254. I would have so many friends if I help back the truth and just gave out compliments.
Drake
255. Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.
The Notorious B.I.G.
256. Everyone has the right to be happy without feeling guilty.
Soulja Boy
