Hip Hop Quotes
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With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
I love the hip-hop nation.
Pam Grier
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.
Jay-Z -
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
Fat Joe -
There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.
Baratunde Thurston -
The steak ain't right without the A-1
Andre Louis Hicks
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
K. Flay -
The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
Karrine Steffans
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And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.
Victor Mercer Army of the Pharaohs -
I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
Natalia Kills -
I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
Ed Sheeran -
I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
Bebe Rexha -
Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.
Nathan John Feuerstein -
I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
Iggy Azalea
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I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.
Kristen Stewart -
I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
T. J. Miller -
For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.
Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach -
Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
Adam Mansbach