Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.

Throw em a bone and they want a steak.

Time is real, we can't rewind it... Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That's what it's all about - get this money. That's basically what I'm saying.

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.

Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.'

Tough like a Ukulele.

Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.

Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless, Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace!

Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.

Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue. It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me, But just in case I own more condoms than TLC.

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

War's extremely serious and it saddens me.

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

We commute to computers Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors We survivalists, turned to consumers.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

We got hookers with heaters that'll stray pop and put more shells in your top than Adidas.

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

We got it on lock like Barack got the nomination

Weird like Murdock, thinkin' like Hannibal, Man like Face but I'm wild like B.A.

We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's like they just got a pair of new jeans..They just started wearing them below their belt 2 months ago.

We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays.

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.

We love it where we from, but we kick it where we at.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

Well, we have to realize the truth about the person who is a hip-hop insider. Most of these people are not really insiders. They are people who are chosen to do an interview and they will make a statement and say that they are a part of the hip-hop culture, but from an intellectual standpoint, they are not very sharp, because back in '1990..'91 one would criticize somebody for doing one type of commercial and say that's not real hip-hop and then another rapper turns around and sell them malt liquor and say that's real hip hop.

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We could make the same case about the church and our government. But hip-hop, like society, isn't one dimensional.

We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.

We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death.

We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

We shoppers, you bloggers. If money talks, you mumblers. You try it on, then take it off, Then post a pic on your tumblrs.

We went from candy bars, to handle bars, to hangin' in bars, to being behind bars

We the money team Fell asleep next to that cake and had a money dream

We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.

We were just drinking some joint juice earlier.

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.