Hip Hop Quotes
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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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.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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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.
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Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
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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.
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The steak ain't right without the A-1
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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.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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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.
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Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.
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Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.
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I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
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When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.
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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.
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Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.
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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.
