Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang, I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

I am street hip-hop brother. That's my biggest message with that one.

I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

I called every day to see how she was doin, Every time that I called her, it seemed somethin was brewin. I called her on my dime, picked up, and then I called again, I said, 'Yo, who was that?' 'Oh, he's just a friend.'

I call my brother 'Sun' cause he shine like one.

I came to a point where I couldn't walk into an urban store and find anything I liked. Everything was just getting too baggy, everything was getting so over [priced]. It's as if what I wanted in street wear was nowhere in stores, with no disrespect to any hip-hop brands.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth. Some call that a problem, but I call it a gift.

I CAN MAKE YOUR PUSSY WHISTLE LIKE THE ANDY GRIFFITH THEME SONG.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.

I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.

I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope, Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP. Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

I'd always loved hip-hop.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I'd like for y'all to meet the love of my life, her name's the game.

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

I don't feel pain cause it's all in the mind, And what's mines is mines and yours is mine!

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds, I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

I drive these brothers crazy I do it on the daily They treat me really nicely They buy me all these ices

I don't wanna dance, baby girl, it's like my legs is on strike.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.