Best 1032 quotes in «hip hop quotes» category

When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.

Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.

Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.

With most electronic music I hear now, the things I like will be the things that have soul. It has to have a feeling in it, where it feels warm, or feels epic. I like to play with that in my music as well, there will always be a piano chord or something underneath it to make you feel at home. I always try and make sure even with vocals and layering that you still feel like you know me, no matter whether you're into grime or hip hop.

Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.

Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!

Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do.

Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.

You ain't as hard as you act. When I GPS 'pussy,' I end up at your welcome mat.

You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.

Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial.

You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do.

You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.

You can't take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes.

You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne.

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

You can call me gay or a tutti-frutti But I won't touch it until I know whose booty

You got to have style, and learn to be original.

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

You pout like a trout in a drought...can't get out. You want to scream, but fish can't shout.

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.

You're mad 'cause my style you're admiring. Don't be mad, UPS is hiring.

You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews* Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh) Cause I leave you, I'm only here For that green paper which lead you

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.