10 Hall Of Fame Level Flicks Of Rapper Struggle Faces [PHOTOS]

Shout out to our fearless leader Alvin aqua Blanco for coining the phrase “struggle face.” You know that look: it can be a combination of fear, loathing, self-loathing, depression, you name it. Let’s face it, rappers have a lot of reasons to make struggle faces. Career struggle highlights include album delays, personal issues, being dropped by their labels and standing next to rappers who are more successful.

The list goes on and on, but the point is there are circumstances where a struggle face is totally necessary. To drive our point home, we’ve compiled a Hall of Fame of rapper struggle faces. These range from all of the aforementioned reasons (actually, we’re just assuming the reasons behind the struggle). It doesn’t matter, there is clearly some degree of struggle present.

Check out our gallery of struggle faces from some of your favorite rappers. If you are a rapper and you’ve made any of these faces, do yourself a favor and never make them again. It’s for your own good, really.

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Photo: 50 Cent & Busta Rhymes

Ah yes, the courtroom struggle face. In Weezy’s case, this throwback flick shows him being cuffed (or uncuffed) for trial. Maybe he was en route to Rikers’ Island where poor Wayne served an eight-month prison sentence before re-emerging and being even more powerful than ever. This photo was all in the past though. Guess he’s not struggling anymore.

This is a face most rappers dread making. Raekwon has the “I’m too damn old for this” face on, which means he’s, well, too damn old for this. What “this” is specifically, we don’t know. We can only speculate that it’s the jolly pot-smoking fun that Method Man is having in the background next to him. Rae looks so annoyed, he’s clutching that water bottle for dear life.

This photo should be captioned: Which significant other is having the worst time ever? After Kanye West dropped that “White Dress” single, there is good enough reason for the struggle faces on both he and Kim K’s parts. They both look like they hate each other in this flick. Or maybe they just hate us talking about them so damn much. Whatever, guys.

The calm before the storm. Nas has the “Marriage is stupid. I need strippers STAT” face, and Kelis is all, “You do that, boo, so I can take you for so much child support that you’re gonna feel like you’re riding a bike with no seat.” Those were the good ol’ days. Now all we have is Nas making s-x invites to his ex-wife on stage at concerts. Life is good?

French Montana is an average-sized gentleman, but alongside the petite Prodigy he might as well be the late Andre the Giant. Prodigy has the “I know I come up to his Areola, but I’m still tough” face, and French has the “Why is my favorite rapper standing next to my Areola” face. The whole thing is a mess. It looks like French is Prodigy’s dad. Fail.

Uh, hey Aubrey, that’s not your crew silly. Why is Drake throwing up the Roc like a feature on the Blueprint 3 makes him a member? He looks so confused. Someone needs to inform this young man that those hand gestures do not form a YMCMB. Didn’t he just graduate high school too? Come on Drizzy, we need you to do better.

“I’m J. Cole and the Roc is in the building! I think?” Why does Cole have the look of uncertainty as he throws up his diamond? Drake looked more confident doing it, and he isn’t even a part of the squad! Jermaine, don’t you know that it’s a Cole World, and you are a real member of the Roc now? Unless of course you think your spot will be stolen by Diggy Simmons. Ruh roh.

This is a picture of Meek Mill back when he used to go by his other rap alias, Young Struggle. Just kidding, but this throwback flick of Meek shows he’s really come a long way (beyond cutting off his hair). He has that “please listen to my demo” struggle face going on here. Now he hangs with MMG, and the only struggle he has is determining which direction to avert his eyes when Rick Ross is topless.

Obviously this photo is very old, because Busta Rhymes and 50 Cent both look like they’re in their thirties. Whoops, twenties. What exactly is going on here, though? They look like they’re watching the footage from a video they just shot and are upset that Hype Williams put so many halogen lamps and lightning bolts of glitter effects in it. That must be what this is. Either that or they’re looking at Soundscan back when rappers didn’t sell records. Wait, they don’t do that now either.

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