Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle, Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals.

Gimme a couple G's for every emcee I knocked to his knees. Verbally useless, 'Oh you got the juice?' I squeeze you juiceless.

Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse, My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse. I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk, Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

God is never late, we're just impatient.

God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ass in line.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

Golly, he's just a pest and your worst best friend, Who mend and rip space-time fabric like polyester blend.

Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter.

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

Hip Hop has its ups and downs but I'm gonna do my best to not necessarily bring that back but just remind people what they are forgetting about.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.

Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.

Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.