"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft"
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The phrasing matters. “Be the best...in the world” is deliberately oversized, half motivational poster, half streetwise dare. Coming from an artist whose career has been built on persona and reinvention, it doubles as a flex in disguise: mastery is what turns a “regular” role into a stage. In hip-hop, credibility often comes from making something out of nothing, and “master your craft” is the respectable, almost old-school version of that ethic. It’s not romanticizing grind so much as insisting that craft is the one lever you control when the economy, the industry, and other people’s gatekeeping aren’t.
There’s also a quiet rebuke to the internet’s obsession with shortcuts. Virality rewards noise; Snoop points to repetition. Whether you’re rapping, cooking, coding, or yes, working a fryer, the subtext is the same: take your work seriously even when the world doesn’t. That’s how careers get built - and how self-respect survives.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Dogg, Snoop. (2026, January 14). If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-its-flipping-hamburgers-at-mcdonalds-be-the-134714/
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Dogg, Snoop. "If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft." FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-its-flipping-hamburgers-at-mcdonalds-be-the-134714/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-its-flipping-hamburgers-at-mcdonalds-be-the-134714/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.













