NBA YoungBoy is by many measures one of the most successful rappers of modern times. His incredible versatility, originality, and vocal skills have made him a highly successful artist on YouTube and other platforms.
Despite all the glamour, few people know about the struggles of his life. He has been in-and-out of jail on multiple occasions and grew up in a broken family. But with hard work and persistence, NBA YoungBoy has built himself into a chart-topping artist and one of the most watched YouTubers on the planet.
His music and verses are full of inspiring lessons about life, success, struggle, and loyalty. Here are some of our favorite quotes and sayings from the YouTube star, NBA YoungBoy:
NBA YoungBoy Quotes on Life
1.) “I’m just a lonely child who wants someone to help him out.” — NBA YoungBoy
2.) “I don’t really talk that much. I just watch and observe.” — NBA YoungBoy
3.) “The only thing that scares me is dying.” — NBA YoungBoy
4.) “I’m leaving and never coming back.” — NBA YoungBoy
5.) “I think music made me who I am. Music taught me what was gutter and what wasn’t. Music taught me how to live.”
6.) “I know I’m young but I feel like it’s nothing I can’t handle.” — NBA YoungBoy
7.) “I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me.” — NBA YoungBoy
8.) “When you with me you ain’t got nothing to worry about.” — NBA YoungBoy
9.) “I wrote my first song in the first or second grade.” — NBA YoungBoy
10.) “I hate school, I really don’t think it’s important. I got money without school. You go to school to become somebody and get a job and get some decent money, I got it without it.” — NBA YoungBoy
11.) “When my grandma left couldn’t do nothing but cry. Got on my knees send my prayers to the sky. I asked em why I swear so many times.” — NBA YoungBoy
12.) “I like being alone but I want someone to be alone with, if that makes sense.” — NBA YoungBoy
12.) “They say I changed a lot, I say a lot changed me.” — NBA YoungBoy
14.) “I’m just trying to be myself – make music how I make music.” — NBA YoungBoy
15.) “I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.” — NBA YoungBoy
16.) “I’m leaving blood through the town. I ain’t never changed.” — NBA YoungBoy
17.) “I been tryna find some peace and only God.” — NBA YoungBoy
18.) “I don’t understand why my feelings be hurt most of the time because I real life don’t be giving a f**k.” — NBA YoungBoy
19.) “Just because you breathing that don’t mean you living.” — NBA YoungBoy
20.) “I am still tryna heal from my past while trying live like I’m okay.”
21.) “You gotta wake up one day and decide that you love yourself more than the unnecessary sh*t you put up with.” — NBA YoungBoy
22.) “Just want you to tell the truth about me. When talk like they was round or sum. And put a all white flower in my casket for they put me under.” — NBA YoungBoy
23.) “Don’t bite the hands that feeds you, cause most likely the hands that feeds you don’t need you.” — NBA YoungBoy
24.) “Since I was younger I been seeing & going thrrough certain sh*t “it’s normal” — NBA YoungBoy
25.) “You can get to know me through my music.” — NBA YoungBoy
26.) “You can’t help someone that doesn’t want to be helped. And you can’t love someone that doesn’t want to be loved.”
27.) “I can vibe with everybody sometimes I just don’t want to.” — NBA YoungBoy
28.) “I’m HEAVY on the “who all over there” because I really don’t like being around mfs.” — NBA YoungBoy
29.) “Never speak twice on how you feel, cause that mf heard you the first time.” — NBA YoungBoy
30.) “Everybody depend on me. I can’t fck up. I ain’t the only person that I’m hurting. If I was given a billion dollars to do life in jail, I’d do it and give that sh*t to my fam.” — NBA YoungBoy
31.) “Got a family counting on me so you knowing whats the deal.” — NBA YoungBoy
32.) “At some point life gone end and all your time will be wasted from trying to prove what didn’t matter.” — NBA YoungBoy
33.) “Sometimes you just gotta be quiet, no matters how you feel.” — NBA YoungBoy
34.) “Hold it down for your loved one’s up in heaven and they will do the same I’m very blessed and protected if you ask me.” — NBA YoungBoy
35.) “In this jail I call life I don’t need bail in this time y’all call crisis I don’t see failure.” — NBA YoungBoy
NBA YoungBoy Quotes on Struggle and Pain
36.) “Pain hit differently when nobody knows what’s really on your mind.” — NBA YoungBoy
37.) “Unless you are me, in my position, don’t ever tell me how to feel.” — NBA YoungBoy
38.) “Hurt me so deep ’cause I realized that it’s just ’bout money.” — NBA YoungBoy
39.) “I been thorough some sh*t that changed me mentally.” — NBA YoungBoy
40.) “When a person speaks out of anger give attention, cause that’s how they been feeling.” — NBA YoungBoy
41.) “Feel like nobody out here for me & I’m okay with that.” — NBA YoungBoy
42.) “If you could read my mind you would be in tears.”
43.) “Whenever you miss me just remember you had me, and I wasn’t enough.” — NBA YoungBoy
44.) “I don’t like being worth it to the point that you have to pretend with me.” — NBA YoungBoy
45.) “Can see the pain in my eyes but I always smile.” — NBA YoungBoy
46.) “They smile up in my face but they don’t know what I been through. Whole lotta nights I went to sleep and I ain’t had no food.” — NBA YoungBoy
47.) “The good in me ’cause they won’t accept me and I feel I’m scarred for my wrongs.” — NBA YoungBoy
48.) “You gotta pay the cost to be the boss. Always been my dream for me to make it to the top. They act like they don’t believe me but sh*t I promise I won’t stop” — NBA YoungBoy
49.) “It’s either jail or death, like, literally. Ain’t no living out there.” — NBA YoungBoy
50.) “I’m broken inside, but I thug it out.” — NBA YoungBoy
51.) “You gotta struggle before you come up, it teaches you a place you never want to return.”
52.) “Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that things will not go back to the way they used to be.” — NBA YoungBoy
53.) “I come from a rare place. It’s a different culture, different atmosphere, police crooked. Different emojis, and when I say emojis I mean personalities.” — NBA YoungBoy
54.) “Locked in that cell missed a lot of things. Thinkin’ bout to take over the game. I gotta make my way outta the ring. My heart full of hatred, my chest full of pain.” — NBA YoungBoy
55.) “I don’t say much, I pay attention to everything tho, it’s always funny how people work.” — NBA YoungBoy
56.) “I have all bad days. I think I need help. I got an anger problem.” — NBA YoungBoy
57.) ”You gotta step out of your comfort zone. Be broke for a while. Lose friends. Sleepless nights. Most people don’t get it tho.”
58.) “Gave you everything you wanted. Still don’t have to give me nothing.” — NBA YoungBoy
59.) “Lowkey sad about the way things have been lately but i know it’s for the best so i’ll just keep going with the flow.” — NBA YoungBoy
60.) “Nobody will ever feel your pain. So do what you gotta do to get over that sh*t.” — NBA YoungBoy
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NBA YoungBoy Quotes on Success
61.) “I guess they don’t like how a nigga be coming Walking alone if nobody coming.” — NBA YoungBoy
62.) “Gotta keep my head above water, gotta make it through.” — NBA YoungBoy
63.) “All this sh*t that I go through just make me stronger. Came out the cave now they heard me conquer.” — NBA YoungBoy
64.) “A car is a car, a job is a job. Don’t let people belittle you.”
65.) “I’ma keep it a hundred, I don’t like you.” — NBA YoungBoy
66.) “And I’m the boss man, all I make is counting music.” — NBA YoungBoy
67.) “Look what I accomplished, I know you see me shining. I know you in the sky you looking down here watching.” — NBA YoungBoy
68.) “I’m moving up sh*t finally getting real.” — NBA YoungBoy
69.) “I always try to make my next song better than the last.” — NBA YoungBoy
70.) “They act like they don’t believe me but shit I promise I won’t stop.” — NBA YoungBoy
71.) “Low expectations equals less disappointment and heartache” — NBA YoungBoy
72.) “Won’t show no sympathy ’cause it’s a dirty game. I know they don’t feel my pain. Can’t let ’em end my name.” — NBA YoungBoy
73.) “Success hit differently when nobody believed you.”
74.) “I hope you woke up in grind mode patience for the ones who really don’t want nothing.” — NBA YoungBoy
75.) “You’ll learn to put yourself first when they constantly putting you last.” — NBA YoungBoy
76.) “You are on the road to success a lot of heart breaks come along the way.” — NBA YoungBoy
77.) “You gotta take a risk or you’ll be doing the same sh** for the rest of your life.” — NBA YoungBoy
78.) “It started with a dream, I’m only 16, but shit nigga its my time to blow.” — NBA YoungBoy
79.) “No matter what i’m going through I hold my head high. On everything for what I love I’d get crucified.” — NBA YoungBoy
80.) “I’ll never let nobody else tell me what’s best for me because I know my worth I know what I want.” — NBA YoungBoy
81.) “I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin’, your grandchildren is ballin’.”
82.) “Remember being on that block posted up trying to find me a way to come up. Had to get off my ass, had to find me a jugg for to try to run it up.” — NBA YoungBoy
83.) “I was in that box locked up. I was sticking niggas up. Drawed on I don’t give it up.” — NBA YoungBoy
84.) “I know we got one thing in common: we both want the dough.” — NBA YoungBoy
85.) “I just keep recording. You never know what you’ll come up with.” — NBA YoungBoy
86.) “I wake up seven or eight in the morning and just smoke and write. It’ll be quiet as a beach, I’ll walk off or some sh*t. Sh*t just be coming to me. I really just rap about how I be feeling, the sh*t I be speaking about I done went through or I’m going to do.” — NBA YoungBoy
87.) “How I feel I should be up there less than a year. I gotta get it nigga knowing what it is.” — NBA YoungBoy
NBA YoungBoy Quotes on Love
88.) “Baby you so hot, all these diamonds cool you down.” — NBA YoungBoy
89.) “Your love is poison so no more I can’t take it.” — NBA YoungBoy
90.) “I’m sorry that I don’t know how to love.” — NBA YoungBoy
91.) “Cut me off before you hurt me I don’t have time for heartbreak.” — NBA YoungBoy
92.) “I don’t wanna fight no more, I need you by my side to help me escape this pain.” — NBA YoungBoy
93.) “You gotta make sure that person you choosing over everybody choosing you too.”
94.) “I be pretending like I’m heartless, when shit constantly getting to me every day.” — NBA YoungBoy
95.) “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” — NBA YoungBoy
96.) “I just wanna wrap you up and hold you in my arms for the night. You been gone for so long, let’s celebrate that we unite.” — NBA YoungBoy
97.) “A man can change his ways for you if he wants you.. remember that.” — NBA YoungBoy
98.) “I’ll never change on you girl you my baby.” — NBA YoungBoy
99.) “At night I need someone on side me just to hold me …I’m tired of thuggin’, now I’m tryna see where the love at.” — NBA YoungBoy
100.) “And once you land, you better be glad to see me.” — NBA YoungBoy
101.) “I let you into my World, then you became it.”
102.) “I was falling in love with you, I ain’t take you as no dub. You something else, you don’t know what to do with yourself.” — NBA YoungBoy
103.) “I might like you a lot but, if the effort don’t match mine then ima fall back.” — NBA YoungBoy
104.) “If we’re in a relationship and we’re arguing that’s a problem you and I need to solve. Not you me your family your friends or social media. Just us.” — NBA YoungBoy
105.) “you walk in your house and you see him standing there, wyd?” — NBA YoungBoy
106.) “You can’t keep choosing the same thing expecting a different outcome all you doing is damaging yourself when all you need to do is love yourself.” — NBA YoungBoy
107.) “I can make you fall in love with all these diamonds.” — NBA YoungBoy
108.) “This brand-new ring make me feel like I won a whole season. You supposed to make me feel like a king without it on.” — NBA YoungBoy
109.) “I believe that you can’t cheat on someone you’re truly in love with. I mean if anger changes your loyalty, then you were really never loyal in the first place. You’re just in love with the thought of being in love and the feeling you get when you’re around them, not the person.” — NBA YoungBoy
110.) “Some people you thought loved you only needed you.”
111.) “A relationship is not always 50/50. Some days a person will struggle. You suck it up and pick up that 80/20 because they need you. That’s love.” — NBA YoungBoy
112.) “I cannot sit here just stress about our situation. I just gotta look at the bigger picture, baby.” — NBA YoungBoy
113.) “You’re just in love with the thought of being in love and the feeling you get when you’re around them, not the person.” — NBA YoungBoy
114.) “So much love so much passion it won’t ever end. I can see these haters faces, yeah I got ’em mad.” — NBA YoungBoy
115.) “I just need someone to stay and never leave.” — NBA YoungBoy
116.) “So many people not around who told me that they love me.” — NBA YoungBoy
117.) “Getting a lot of girls isn’t something you should be proud of. Keeping one is.”
118.) “If I delete our pictures you lost me.” — NBA YoungBoy
119.) “Don’t ever think you used me, you just run in to a real one with a big heart.” — NBA YoungBoy
120.) “Allow me to be distant sometimes without taking it personally.” — NBA YoungBoy
121.) “Baby I just wanna show you off, Come and show me what you all about.” — NBA YoungBoy
122.) “If we can’t argue and bounce back…. Ion want no dealing with you. Friendship or relationship.” — NBA YoungBoy
123.) “You the one I want you the one I need.” — NBA YoungBoy
124.) “Nobody is going to understand why you love someone the way you do except you.” — NBA YoungBoy
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NBA YoungBoy Quotes on Loyalty
125.) “Without loyalty, you won’t accomplish anything.” — NBA YoungBoy
126.) “Stuntin’ on everybody, whoever slept on me.” — NBA YoungBoy
127.) “I don’t really trust nobody.” — NBA YoungBoy
128.) “I am tired of making permanent places in my heart for temporary people.”
129.) “How many people check on you daily? For no reason… just a wassup? What’s good? You good?” — NBA YoungBoy
130.) “After you show me your true colors I’m not thinking “just let it go” I’m thinking “just let them go.” — NBA YoungBoy
132.) “Real friends don’t ever count favors if I got you, I got you my nigga.” — NBA YoungBoy
132.) “It’s hard to trust people here because these guys be having hidden motives.” — NBA YoungBoy
133.) “Some people don’t even have your best interest but want to get money with you.” — NBA YoungBoy
134.) “It’s ok to miss people, but never forget why you distanced them.” — NBA YoungBoy
135.) “Remember who had you when you were at your lowest.” — NBA YoungBoy
136.) “The real gone remain and the fake gone fade, you might not like it but it’s the truth.” — NBA YoungBoy
137.) “I value loyalty too much in a world where loyalty doesn’t matter.”
138.) “In that cell realized I ain’t got no friends.” — NBA YoungBoy
139.) “Said they behind me but I know that they ain’t with me.” — NBA YoungBoy
140.) “Everybody depend on me. I can’t f*ck up. I ain’t the only person that I’m hurting. If I was given a billion dollars to do life in jail, I’d do it and give that sh*t to my fam.” — NBA YoungBoy
141.) “If you lose me, you stupid.” — NBA YoungBoy
142.) “I believe that you can’t cheat on someone you’re truly in love with. I mean if anger changes your loyalty, then you were really never loyal in the first place.” — NBA YoungBoy
143.) “Your intention been for the leaving I can say that’s for certain. The day I die that’s my revenge from you hurtin’ me.” — NBA YoungBoy
144.) “I need nobody and I never needed nothing from nobody. I got me.” — NBA YoungBoy
145.) “To me blood doesn’t define family loyalty does, cause it’s people that I’m related to that I don’t even consider family.” — NBA YoungBoy
146.) “Everybody wants loyalty but no one wants to give it.”
147.) “Your opps changed up on me. Bout it I won’t complain. Can’t let you get to me. Give a f*ck what you thinkin.” — NBA YoungBoy
148.) “I can see if you was loyal from the start and I ain’t f**king with you on no level so you mad but if you wasn’t never loyal why you complaining?” — NBA YoungBoy
149.) “We all lost a good bond and over some wack sh*t.” — NBA YoungBoy
150.) “I don’t give up on people easy so just know, if I cut you off, you messed up.” — NBA YoungBoy
151.) “As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have a ton of friends, and more important to have real ones.” — NBA YoungBoy
152.) “Real isn’t what someone says, it’s what they do.” — NBA YoungBoy
153.) “Don’t get your hopes up you a get crossed 10 times faster for being loyal I seen it.” — NBA YoungBoy
154.) “Be careful how much you tolerate. You teaching them how to treat you.” — NBA YoungBoy
155.) “People put up with you because of what you bring the moment they feel they don’t need you any more or someone else come in the picture.” — NBA YoungBoy
156.) “I appreciate the ones whose there all all times, not when it’s convenient.”
157.) “Stop expecting loyalty from people who can’t even be honest with you.” — NBA YoungBoy
158.) “Claim they ridin’ Imma see who really with me, yeah. I went hard and I finally really did it.” — NBA YoungBoy
159.) “I wish I could pay for something real like these diamonds….everything coming out to be fake.” — NBA YoungBoy
160.) “I don’t care who’s what or what you think of me I hope you taking care of yourself.” — NBA YoungBoy
161.) “I always say “imma do them like they do me”, but its not even in my heart to be like that.” — NBA YoungBoy
Inspirational NBA YoungBoy Quotes
162.) “I ain’t got nothing to prove to nobody.” — NBA YoungBoy
163.) “I pay for therapy because my thoughts ahead of me.” — NBA YoungBoy
164.) “Ain’t no pretending, we live like this no acting.” — NBA YoungBoy
165.) “Success make these niggas mad I know how it is.” — NBA YoungBoy
166.) “Love yourself and never let the hate get to you.”
167.) “You probably can overcome what you’re going through from listening to my music.” — NBA YoungBoy
168.) “In the Maybach alone, I don’t need nobody.” — NBA YoungBoy
169.) “My chest gotta icebox inside it.” — NBA YoungBoy
170.) “F*ck the industry, won’t let ’em take me under.” — NBA YoungBoy
171.) “I won’t say that I am good but I’ll be allright, it won’t rain forever.” — NBA YoungBoy
172.) “What I really want I haven’t received maybe because I don’t need it.” — NBA YoungBoy
173.) “Don’t let your ego be your downfall.” — NBA YoungBoy
174.) “My heart so big I help people even when I be needing help.” — NBA YoungBoy
175.) “Gotta go through the worst to get the best.” — NBA YoungBoy
176.) “My heart a lil hurt but I always thug it out.” — NBA YoungBoy
177.) “Time is money I ain’t wasting time. I’m feelin like Kobe I’m in my prime.”
178.) “Better stop showing more than people showing you.” — NBA YoungBoy
179.) “We all got the same 24 hours.. the time you spend speaking on me you could be getting yourself right.” — NBA YoungBoy
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180.) “I’m committed to my family.” – NBA YoungBoy
181.) “Youngboy never broke again freshman pitch.” — NBA YoungBoy
182.) “All that reppin’ like you steppin’ get you lined up. Everywhere I go you know I keep that iron tucked.” — NBA YoungBoy
183.) “When I’m in public people see me they screaming my name. Just a few days ago I was locked up in them chains. Now I’m in back of the Maybach with a lot of bands. I ain’t worry ’bout ’em dissin’ naw, I don’t hear a thing they sayin’” — NBA YoungBoy
184.) “If i can pray there i can stay there i ain’t scared of nothing.” — NBA YoungBoy
185.) “I try to keep my kids with me everywhere I go.” – NBA YoungBoy
186.) “You better work harder than you ever did.” — NBA YoungBoy
187.) “One day I’m gone have everything I prayed for. I really believe it.” — NBA YoungBoy
188.) “A hustler always funds a way figure it out, don’t stress out.” — NBA YoungBoy
189.) “You will never grow if you can’t admit your wrongs and learn from your mistakes.”
190.) “If they don’t appreciate you, they don’t deserve you.” — NBA YoungBoy
191.) My loyalty is different from everybody else’s loyalty. My loyalty is real and runs deep.” – NBA Youngboy
192.) “Play your role. Newer fw somebody more that they fw you cause they’ll use your heart agains you.” — NBA YoungBoy
193.) “You can only be mad at yourself from overplaying your part…just learning from it.” — NBA YoungBoy
Final Thoughts
NBA YoungBoy’s life was full of ups and downs. Even in his prime, he continues to struggle with mental health due to his distressing past and childhood. However, he has seemed to made the best out of his resources and uses his experiences to craft musical masterpieces.
People that value loyalty will find lots of resemblance in NBA YoungBoy’s quotes. His sayings also serve as excellent reminder to stick with people who are with you in the best and worst moments of life.
