Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste

Live each day like your last...one day you'll be right.

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

Male groupies gettin' shaky when I come from the rear.

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.

Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know. And it's the whole reason I've done what I've done for as long as I've done it. It's that I'm able to use what I know in order to help someone else grow. And that's exactly what happened on Sisterhood of Hip Hop.

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ass like Jurassic

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

Music is the universal language.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo.

My first Hip Hop concert was at the Apollo at the age of 12. Southpaw's father was interviewing Queen Latifah and Treach as well as many others. The place was so packed no one could move but I got to be backstage with the video equipment and so I saw the show from a great place.