Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

I've sort of realized there's a definite pattern to my output at this point: there's an album that everybody sort of loves, that's a real balance between the old and new, like The Dreamer or No Beginning No End, like a blend of jazz and hip-hop, or r&b and soul and hip-hop.

I wake up hip-hop, Go to sleep hip-hop, Dream 'bout hip-hop, 'Cause I AM HIP-HOP.

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea from?

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

I wanna rock right now.

I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour

I wear black while suckers wear pink.

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.

I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

La di da di, we likes to party We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

Just cause niggas get behind you don't mean they got your back Beware of the serpent.

Ketchup I'm hot, dog Frankfurters, you're Nathan But relish hatin'

I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

Ladies love me when I spray the mic But there aint no "I" in snuggling Aint no "U" in "Stay the night

Last time I failed is when I fell in love with distractions.

Layin niggas so flat, homies think you plankin', Only realize you dead when the corpse start stankin'.

Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

Ladies love me, girls adore me I mean even the ones who never saw me

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.

Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.

Let's test the waters... Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip.

LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!!

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.

Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

Listenin to nothin, takin no suggestions, All destructive criticisms that can't improve on perfection.

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.