You don't need to roll up to the gym riding spinners or wearing hella gold chains to get down to this rap workout playlist. With fast beats and quick rhymes, each of these tracks delivers enough "umph" to help you power through your workout...and increase your street cred.
Whether they're relaying the importance of taking things one step at a time or taking a moment to relish in the fruits of their recording-studio efforts, artists like Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Meek Mills, and Nas know one thing: You need to put in the work to see the results. Take a diamond from their grill and ignore the haters, crush your goals, and enjoy the success that comes from rising above even your own expectations.
Download this playlist from Spotify and turn it up. We only have one warning: it's highly probable that you won't be able to stop yourself from rapping along. Good luck keeping up, though.
Via Warner Music Group
If Meek Mill and Rick Ross can compare themselves to Tupac, then you can make the mirror think you're Phil Heath!
Via Top Dawg Entertainment
Listen up: Go big. Ignore anyone who tells you otherwise!
Via Sony Music Entertainment
You want to be great? You gotta put in the work.
Via Strange Music
If you're lifting, don't try to keep up with the lyrics. These guys spit rhymes so fast you'll forget what you're doing!
Via Universal Music Group
2 Chainz says real winners put in real time. No lie.
Via Universal Music Group
Some lifts require fight music. As always, Eminem delivers.
Via Sony Music Entertainment
Nobody wants to live a mediocre life. Take a leaf out of T.I.'s book and expect nothing but the best from yourself.
Via Universal Music Group
You may not be a champion boxer like Ali, but you can implement his intensity in your workouts. Make every workout your own Rumble in the Jungle.
Via Universal Music Group
Think you "have it"? You better be able to prove it.
Via Universal Music Group
You've seen some things. Now it's time to lift some things.
Via Universal Music Group
You don't need a tiny percussion instrument to announce your entry into the gym. Make your own beat with the clashing of plates, the clang of iron, and your grunts from exhaustion.
Via Universal Music Group
If this beat doesn't push you, nothing will. Swerve.
Via Reach Records
The gym's no place for smack talk, just ask Lecrae. Less talk more action.
Via Sony Music Entertainment
Things to go low on: squats, cleans, dips, this beat.
Via Universal Music Group
Stay at the top of your game and right above the rest with this Lil Wayne classic.
Via Universal Music Group
You're bad, and everyone knows it. And if they don't, they will when they see you squatting under all those plates. Own it.
Via Sony Music Entertainment
There's no admiration in ego-driven gluttony. The message of this song is pretty simple: Take only what you need and realize the power of one. One day of healthy eating, one more rep, one more pound lifted—all pushing you one step closer to your goals.
Via Body Head Entertainment
This song is about you. When you get in the zone, you can't be touched, stopped, moved, or rocked. Stay determined and crush PRs.
Via Universal Music Group
Not only are they a good-for-you, cholesterol-lowering vegetable with cancer-protective properties, collard greens served up by Schoolboy Q also comes with a sick beat to push you through your training. We recommend you allow for a healthy serving and play this song at least three times daily.
Via Universal Music Group
You don't need to layer your chains or wear a grill to understand the lure of bringing home the gold. Train for that first place finish with this mantra thumping through your headphones.
