Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50. So why don't you just rhyme like 50? Then, you could get the money like 50, Otherwise, before you see success...you'll be 50.'

Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? And cell phones and beepers was the new trends? When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator.

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

"Rock on, my mellow!" "B-boys, b-girls, are you ready?" "This is the joint!" "To the beat, y'all!" "You don't stop!

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.

Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa It's a killer bee color scheme

Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump... Lala la la lala la laaaa

Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up... Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

Since I've been in this industry, it's been a constant fight; "Oh, he's white, he's Cuban." "He's tryin' to do hip-hop and he's too Spanish, he's too English."You fight all these stereotypes through all these boundaries, and you find a way to tap-dance through all these different genres and cultures through music - that's what Rebelution is.