Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American rapper Lil Wayne.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record executive.. He is commonly regarded as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation, and often cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time. His career began in 1995, at the age of 12, when he was signed by rapper Birdman, joining Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label. From then on, Wayne was the flagship artist of Cash Money Records before ending his association with the company in June 2018.
One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.
I don't think nothing. I just do my work.
Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.
I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.
Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.
I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?
Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.
I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.
I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.
I like being misunderstood.
We're here to live. We're here to do, we're here to be.
As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.
I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.
I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.
Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.
I want to be a skater.
I don't like to stop. I believe you stop when you die.
I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.
My aim is just to make good music every single time.
Life is a lot like skateboarding.
I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.
I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.
I do not consider myself a literal genius.
I don't have to prove anything.
Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.
Where I come from, the block become your daddy.
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.
I go wherever my creativity takes me.
I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'
Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.
Nothing scares me but God.
I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.
I just feel out of this world sometimes.
I want to make sure my family's straight.
I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.
You're either living or you're dead.
I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.
I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.
If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.
The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.
I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.
A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.
They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.
I watch ESPN all day long.
I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.
I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.