Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle, Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals.

Gimme a couple G's for every emcee I knocked to his knees. Verbally useless, 'Oh you got the juice?' I squeeze you juiceless.

Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse, My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse. I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk, Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

God is never late, we're just impatient.

God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ass in line.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

Golly, he's just a pest and your worst best friend, Who mend and rip space-time fabric like polyester blend.

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter.

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.

Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

Hip Hop has its ups and downs but I'm gonna do my best to not necessarily bring that back but just remind people what they are forgetting about.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.

Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.

Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.