Wyclef Jean Quotes

Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.

Wyclef Jean Fugees

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• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Music
  • Ready
  • Hip Hop

• I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • You
  • Hip Hop
  • Graffiti

• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Way
  • Day
  • Hip Hop

• Hip-hop was started on groups.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Hip Hop
  • Groups
  • Started

• I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Up
  • Value

• Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Hip Hop
  • Call

• I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Hip Hop
  • Big
  • Approach

• The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Sound
  • Influence
  • Hip Hop

• 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

  

  Nas
  • Career
  • Album
  • Debut

• Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • New York
  • Growing Up
  • Hip Hop

• Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Music
  • Different
  • Hip Hop

• 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.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Internet
  • Hip Hop

• I want a girl with extensions in her hair, Bamboo earrings, at least two pair, A Fendi bag and a bad attitude, That's all I need to get me in a good mood. She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang, I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Good
  • She
  • Bad

• Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Accepting
  • Hip Hop
  • Limits

• Me and Frosted went to get a drink. But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think. She ordered potassium, calcium, Carbohydrate, scotch with sodium. She took me to her crib, threw me on the couch... I woke up the next morning with a spoon in my mouth.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • She

• There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Real
  • Road

• 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.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Conscious
  • Hip Hop
  • Rock N Roll

• My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Mom
  • Humanity

• If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Hip Hop