Hip Hop Quotes
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Tough like a Ukulele.
Keith Matthew Thornton -
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'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
Damian Marley -
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.
LL Cool J -
Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop
LL Cool J -
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 -
Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
K. Flay
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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 -
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.
Gary Clark Jr. -
You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
Donald Glover -
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 -
To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
Queen Latifah -
They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
Mac Miller
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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 -
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 -
Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
Yelawolf -
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 -
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.
LL Cool J -
I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
Quavo Migos -
My radio, believe me, I like it loud, I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd. Walkin' down the street, to the hardcore beat While my JVC vibrates the concrete.
LL Cool J -
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
Ka