Hip Hop Quotes
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God sent me to piss the world off!
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks to Schoolly D's "Saturday Night." I would give anything for a video of that.
Axel Alonso
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The hip-hop variants were a really special initiative that caught fire in the outside world.
Axel Alonso
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Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.
Casey Spooner
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I've always loved all genres of music anyway, but hip-hop felt natural.
JessB
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When I die, so does hip hop.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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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
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I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music, disco and house. It feels very natural. My rhythm growing up on hip-hop and R&B was cool, fresh, and I feel comfortable with it.
Nomi Ruiz
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...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere. They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed, Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough. A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.' I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow. You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee; Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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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
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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
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Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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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
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Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other.
Canibus
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The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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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
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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
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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
Saul Williams
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Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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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
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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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
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Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.
Axel Alonso