Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

FLYING DOWN SUNSET SMOKING CRACK TRANSVESTITE IN THE FRONT EDDI MURPHY IN THE BACK MOP HAD ME GRINDY AND GRIDDY MARILYN MANSON, I DYED MY HAIR BLUE AND GREW SOME TITTIES

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.

For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter.

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

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

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

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

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 culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

Hip hop is kinda funny because the further you get into it the more at risk you are.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.