Hip Hop Quotes
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They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
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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.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.
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Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.
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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
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From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.
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I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.
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That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.
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In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
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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.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
