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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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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Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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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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Real slow hits from the bong...
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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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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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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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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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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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
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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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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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Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.
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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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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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The steak ain't right without the A-1
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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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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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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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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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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Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.
