Hip Hop Quotes
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We love it where we from, but we kick it where we at.
Khalilah-Azraa Vieira
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
Questlove
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
T. J. Miller
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
Questlove
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In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
Ka
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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
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
Nas
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I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
Damian Marley
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Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.
LL Cool J
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
Adam Peaty
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
Louis Mario Freese
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
Quincy Jones
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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.
Ice T
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We're on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We're going to cover the hip-hop scene from a neutral but still hard-hitting point of view.
Jeremy Miller
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Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
Louis Mario Freese
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We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
Yelawolf
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Tough like a Ukulele.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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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.
Ice T
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
Washed Out
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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.
Nas
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And I'm telling you now the frustration
Corey Brent Penn
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
Isaac Hayes
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Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.
J Dilla