Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.

I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope, Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP. Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

I'd always loved hip-hop.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I'd like for y'all to meet the love of my life, her name's the game.

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

I don't feel pain cause it's all in the mind, And what's mines is mines and yours is mine!

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds, I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

I drive these brothers crazy I do it on the daily They treat me really nicely They buy me all these ices

I don't wanna dance, baby girl, it's like my legs is on strike.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march? I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

If we actually supported these gay artists and pumped money behind them the same way they pump money behind these divas, a conversation of homophobia in hip hop wouldn't be. Because I would have the money and the revenue coming in. It's not about homophobia or who's going to push back. It's all about who's supporting you and where there's money from.

If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and they wanna know Oh oh oh oh yeah If you are what you say you are Then have no fear

If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.