Hip Hop Quotes
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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.
Ja Rule
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I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.
Jim Gaffigan
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
Nas
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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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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.
Ice Cube
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I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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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.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
Karrine Steffans
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
Ed Sheeran
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If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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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
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
Adam Mansbach
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Just cause niggas get behind you don't mean they got your back Beware of the serpent.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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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.
Baratunde Thurston
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Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
Yelawolf
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Real slow hits from the bong...
Louis Mario Freese
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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
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Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.
Nathan John Feuerstein
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The steak ain't right without the A-1
Andre Louis Hicks