Quotes About Ambition

To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.

To come through the ranks and play for your boyhood club is a dream come true.

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

I know I can't rap forever, but I know as long as I got a label or something I can get money forever.

My whole life I saw everybody else get shine, I saw everybody else get money, everybody else wanted to rap. I saw them getting record deals and stuff like that. And everytime I saw that it was damn, I can't wait until my time.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.

I want to show other girls how happy I am and how confident I am, how I still want to go to school and I still want to rap.

I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.

Rap is very competitive. I just think I'm light years better than anybody.

I want to be a rap icon.

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

Maybe in Latvian one day I'll rap a little bit, but definitely not in English.

I always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the other kids were going to college, but I just felt like I had to do this first, and if it didn't work, then I would go to college.

I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, 'I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made it!' You see it a lot of times - you'll have an athlete that you love, and then they'll be like, 'I also want to rap,' and you're like, 'Don't do that.' I was that kid.

I ain't never did no sports. I just always wanted to rap.

Everyone just has different things in their life they want to do. I wanted to clean up my bucket list, explore the world. Rap was our gateway into anything we wanted to do.

When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that.

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.'

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.