Quotes About Motivation

Ever since I was a little kid, I would always rap. I just loved it. But when I really got into it seriously was when I saw 'Kill Bill.'

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.

To me, sometimes things outside of rap inspire me to rap.

After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be.

I always felt like I had something to prove. It's always been, 'I gotta show them that I can still rap. I gotta show them I can still make a hit or sell out a show.'

Everybody was down on me saying I can't rap, so I wanted to show everybody that I could actually do this. That's what motivated me.

I loved English and I tell kids that without English I wouldn't be able to rap.

Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

I'm a rapper but I'm more of a hustler.

I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.

I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

Chance The Rapper is a person who really knows what he wants.

I never really was like, 'Let's me and this rapper link so the song can go crazy and everybody can listen to it.' I never made music for that purpose.

I'm not just rapping because I like it anymore - this is like almost my career now, you know? Not almost, it is! This is what I feed myself and my family with, so I attack it that way.

I'll be honest with you: before I heard Nicki rapping, I probably wouldn't have thought to rap myself. Just to see a female doing it and being in there with the guys, it was motivation.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just to get people's attention around the city, to make me a little show money. But then music became my passion, it got real serious.

To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything.

It's nice to have the support and infrastructure to do what I want creatively. That's kind of a rare thing to find.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.