Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

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

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

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.

If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march? I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

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

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and they wanna know Oh oh oh oh yeah If you are what you say you are Then have no fear

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.

If we actually supported these gay artists and pumped money behind them the same way they pump money behind these divas, a conversation of homophobia in hip hop wouldn't be. Because I would have the money and the revenue coming in. It's not about homophobia or who's going to push back. It's all about who's supporting you and where there's money from.

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.

If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.

I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

I got lots of love for my crew, that is; No love for them other crews and rival kids. All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is, And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.

I gotta feel alive, even if it kills me. Promise to always give you me, the real me.

I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.

I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on.

I got the wild style, always been a foul child, My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.

I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe.

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.

I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.