Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.

Damn it feels good to see people up on it.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best.

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game.

Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.

Even the genius ask questions.

Did the record [Danger] do well? I believe it did what it should have. It showed the hip hop community that Tony Sunshine is doing well and looking great.

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

Everybody got a deal, I did it without one

Everybody's not always open to everything. People have biased feelings about certain things, especially in the hip-hop world. The hip-hop world hates homosexuality.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever.

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.

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

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

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.

God is never late, we're just impatient.