Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

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 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

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.

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

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

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

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