Hip Hop Quotes
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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.
J. B. Smoove -
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.
Ja Rule
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Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
Louis Mario Freese -
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.
Adam Mansbach -
How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
Louis Mario Freese -
I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
Adam Mansbach -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.'
Daddy Yankee
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Her bikini - small; heels - tall She said she liked the ocean.
LL Cool J -
Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
Nas -
From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
Randy Savage -
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.
Adam Mansbach -
My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
Washed Out -
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.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
Adam Peaty -
The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
Ice Cube -
I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
Nas -
If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
Real slow hits from the bong...
Louis Mario Freese -
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates