Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.

Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know. And it's the whole reason I've done what I've done for as long as I've done it. It's that I'm able to use what I know in order to help someone else grow. And that's exactly what happened on Sisterhood of Hip Hop.

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

My first Hip Hop concert was at the Apollo at the age of 12. Southpaw's father was interviewing Queen Latifah and Treach as well as many others. The place was so packed no one could move but I got to be backstage with the video equipment and so I saw the show from a great place.

My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ass like Jurassic

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Music is the universal language.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo.

My forte is the music. But obviously if ya don't keep up with the business, then your kinda doing it for nothing. So I do plan on being well off doing, maximizing what I do now. I heard Jimmy Kimmel describe being in your thirties in hip-hop is like the equivalent to being 300 yrs. old; almost like a dinosaur.

My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it.

My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.

My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage.

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.

Next time you see a brother down Stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.

Nobody's gonna ever like all my music but if your talking about the core hip-hop fans that like hardcore rap, they're still gonna feel some of my stuff cuz I rap hard a lot of the time.

Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters, Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that, we created something endured. And whatever you might think of commercial hip hop now, there's a lot there to like and there's a lot there to critique and there's a lot of things you could say both about. But we created something that endured when we ourselves were not supposed to endure. When we ourselves were not supposed to survive and thrive. So I think that is worthy of respect and preservation and it's US history.

Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back, Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.

No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate, as the great will dominate straight to the state Of reignin', gainin'...So put Kane in That category. Period. End of story.

Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.

Now on the first day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A sack of the krazy glue and told me to smoke it up slowly. Now on the second day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A fifth of Hendog and told me to take my mind off that weed. Now by the third day of Christmas, my big homeboy gave to me A whole lot of everything, and it wasn't nuthin' but game to me.

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

Now what Clan you know with lines this ill? Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.

Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk with so much emphasis Ooh they so sensitive

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread

Oh baby you ..got what I need but you say he's just a friend