Hip-hop Quotes
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
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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.
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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
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'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.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
