Hip Hop Quotes

• Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Hell
  • Hip Hop

• Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me, out there, doing it now. I find that, with the whole hip-hop generation, there's a lot of attitude. Whether it's confidence or arrogance or whichever, I will always say to a young guy, “Nobody wants to work with an asshole.” You know, you can still be a great player. You can still play all of the baddest licks in the world. But if you don't have a good attitude, nobody's going to work with you.

  

  Christian McBride
  • Play
  • Attitude
  • Generation

• Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.

  

  Saul Williams
  • Young
  • Hip Hop
  • Definition

• The hip-hop variants were a really special initiative that caught fire in the outside world.

  

  Axel Alonso
  • World
  • Hip Hop
  • Variants

• I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Today
  • Hip Hop

• Ghostface, when it comes to hip-hop, was one of my favorite rappers and definitely one of my favorites in the Wu-Tang. He's also a really cool dude.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Hip Hop
  • Rappers
  • Favorites

• Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Hip Hop

• All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul come from black innovation. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Jazz

• I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Music
  • Fashion

• No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Community
  • Essence
  • Loyal

• My eventual thing is like hopefully cats will really recognize that everything I’ve done that they considered outside of hip-hop, really was hip-hop at the end of the day and that maybe at the end of the day, I would love to be the guy that killed the word "genre".

  

  Everlast
  • Hip Hop
  • Genre

• I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • She
  • Black

• Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other.

  

  Canibus
  • Word
  • Mirrors
  • Reflect

• Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dance
  • I Love
  • Laugh

• For what it's worth, I've been a hip-hopper from birth. Try to disrespect, and get your ass played up like a Smurf.

  

  Extra P
  • Birth
  • Hip Hop
  • Disrespect

• You have to have a balance, and I think that people get upset about Hip-Hop and say that it's dead because there is no balance. It's just all this simple-minded music, and it doesn't seem to be any content, and the dance club music outnumbers the little content there is.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Music
  • Balance
  • Content

• Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

  

  Ian Matthias Bavitz
  • Hip Hop
  • Genre
  • Campaign

• I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

  

  Sxip Shirey
  • Sound
  • Hip Hop
  • Neighborhood

• Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

  

  Saul Williams
  • Party
  • Consciousness
  • Hip Hop

• There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a different place, and what you're doing is experimental. Nobody's been there in hip-hop.'

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Hip Hop
  • Disagree
  • Different Place

• Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

  

  Axel Alonso
  • History
  • Hip Hop
  • Grew Up

• Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Artists
  • Direction
  • Changing

• I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

  

  Nick Robinson
  • Music
  • Hip Hop
  • Groups

• The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Hip Hop
  • Essence

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