Hip Hop Quotes
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Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!
Everlast
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I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.
Chad Hugo N.E.R.D.
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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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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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You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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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
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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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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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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
will.i.am
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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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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
Saul Williams
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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
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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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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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The hip-hop variants were a really special initiative that caught fire in the outside world.
Axel Alonso
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Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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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
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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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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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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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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ass in line.
Killer Mike