Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

People also knew me for putting people up to hip-hop, so people knew I was heavy into hip-hop. But as for cyphers and stuff in high school, I would never get on it because I was too shy. That's pretty much what I was doing.

People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50. So why don't you just rhyme like 50? Then, you could get the money like 50, Otherwise, before you see success...you'll be 50.'

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.

Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.

Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator.

Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? And cell phones and beepers was the new trends? When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa It's a killer bee color scheme

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

"Rock on, my mellow!" "B-boys, b-girls, are you ready?" "This is the joint!" "To the beat, y'all!" "You don't stop!

Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.