Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it.

My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

Next time you see a brother down Stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.

Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters, Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better.

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Nobody's gonna ever like all my music but if your talking about the core hip-hop fans that like hardcore rap, they're still gonna feel some of my stuff cuz I rap hard a lot of the time.

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate, as the great will dominate straight to the state Of reignin', gainin'...So put Kane in That category. Period. End of story.

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that, we created something endured. And whatever you might think of commercial hip hop now, there's a lot there to like and there's a lot there to critique and there's a lot of things you could say both about. But we created something that endured when we ourselves were not supposed to endure. When we ourselves were not supposed to survive and thrive. So I think that is worthy of respect and preservation and it's US history.

Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back, Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.

Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

Now on the first day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A sack of the krazy glue and told me to smoke it up slowly. Now on the second day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A fifth of Hendog and told me to take my mind off that weed. Now by the third day of Christmas, my big homeboy gave to me A whole lot of everything, and it wasn't nuthin' but game to me.

Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

Now what Clan you know with lines this ill? Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.

Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk with so much emphasis Ooh they so sensitive

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread

Oh baby you ..got what I need but you say he's just a friend

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

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