Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin.

You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

You might win some, but you just lost one.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

You pout like a trout in a drought...can't get out. You want to scream, but fish can't shout.

You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.

You're mad 'cause my style you're admiring. Don't be mad, UPS is hiring.

Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it. Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.

You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.

You want ass? The cash is first. You got dead presidents, baby, I got a hearse in my purse.

You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews* Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh) Cause I leave you, I'm only here For that green paper which lead you

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you?

You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would think Jazz would be the natural associative, but it's extraordinary what kind of crossed-genre associations we are finding in digital media. And even as I'm talking about it, I find myself speaking very much more about how people are accessing that which, what I do, rather than me being preoccupied trying to market something that I do to them.

Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.

You would think I would recycle by the way I found my last chick...cause all she wants is paper or plastic.

Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

According to a study conducted by the Oxford African American Studies Center, hip hop is part of and speaks to a long line of black American and African traditions. Many observers also make a connection between rap and West African griot tradition, the art of wandering storytellers known for their knowledge of local settings and their superior vocal skills.

A big reason for their hesitancy to become recording artists was that during their time at WBAU the Spectrum camp has been observing the harsh realities of the developing rap game. Inflated egos meant that they had to treat the upcoming acts who played at their gigs like kings. But after the shows the Spectrum crew would then drive those acts back to the same impoverished neighbourhoods that they'd always lived in. Driving supposed rap stars back to the projects made an impression. 'None of them were really getting paid off records so I was like, "Damn",' is how Chuck assessed the situation.

And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were still in slavery was a gift so great that it is now almost the only reason many foreigners still like us at least a little bit. That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues. All pop music today-jazz, swing, be-bop, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Stones, rock and roll, hip hop and on and on- is derived from the blues.

Add a Melody to Your Lyrical Words, Add a Tune to Life's Situations, Let there be a Song! Beautiful, Romantic, Hip-Hop, Rap; Let there be a Moment one day, When we can Sing - Life, Remembering this is where we did Belong!

A fast note about Ice-T's autobiography: There's a section where he tells a story about hanging out with Flavor Flav that involves going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari. I suspect the phrase "going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari" is the most accurate description of Flavor Flav anyone will ever come up with.

As millions use social media as a primary source of information, the risk of falling victim to being misinformed is high. Readers who quickly scan newsfeeds tend to only read (and share information about) a headline: focusing on “the hook.” Whether due to complacency or lack of time, few explore the content. This allows bogus media outlets to descend on the unsuspecting (and unprepared) seekers of instant information, creating false stories with dazzling one-liners, secure in the knowledge that there will be little effort to pursue confirmation or research an entire story.

As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward dominant values and noncompliance with the status quo creates alternative, counterhegemonic spaces.

Hip hop music (and the entire category) is one of few that unite fans of all colors, races, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, ages and genders.

For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about African American history, politics and even relationships: all of which would be missed if society merely focused on the “hook” and ignored the influence.

Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.”

Hip-hop is storytelling.

A thin stream of music stretched between us, joining her world to mine.

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption For the sins committed before revelation.

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work

I believe hip hop’s characteristic beliefs as a whole are misunderstood, underappreciated and highly underestimated.

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.

I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it.

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto Cuz where else in death do I get to go?

I have a weird thing with giraffes, I don't like their neck

It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.

Lebih baik mati terlupakan, daripada selamanya dikenang orang karena menyerah.

I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.