Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

FLYING DOWN SUNSET SMOKING CRACK TRANSVESTITE IN THE FRONT EDDI MURPHY IN THE BACK MOP HAD ME GRINDY AND GRIDDY MARILYN MANSON, I DYED MY HAIR BLUE AND GREW SOME TITTIES

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

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.

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

God is never late, we're just impatient.

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

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

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.

Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter.

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

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

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

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.

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.