Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em

Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

Classical slap-stick rappers need Chapstick.

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

Coming up, you [got new] sneakers and you had to run outside to make sure everyone saw. It was on display. That's just part of Hip Hop culture, part of the competitive spirit of Hip Hop. This is not new, I don't believe it's new.

Consequence is no coincidence.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.

Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it. A 40 ounce to chase it, that's just an understatement.

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

Damn it feels good to see people up on it.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.

Did the record [Danger] do well? I believe it did what it should have. It showed the hip hop community that Tony Sunshine is doing well and looking great.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best.

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.

Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

Everybody's not always open to everything. People have biased feelings about certain things, especially in the hip-hop world. The hip-hop world hates homosexuality.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

Even the genius ask questions.

Everybody got a deal, I did it without one

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever.

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

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.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

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

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

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

Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena

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

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

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.

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.

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.

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.