Hip Hop Quotes
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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 was started on groups.
Quavo Migos
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If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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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I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.
Jim Gaffigan
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My radio, believe me, I like it loud, I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd. Walkin' down the street, to the hardcore beat While my JVC vibrates the concrete.
LL Cool J
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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
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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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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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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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The steak ain't right without the A-1
Andre Louis Hicks
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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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If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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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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How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil' Flip, Lil' Cease, yo they not the same Lil' Wyte, Lil' Mama, where Lil' Zane? Little Brother, Lil' Jon, and Lil' Fame Real hip hop, not about your lil' chain Lil' Keke, Lil' Kim a lil' freaky Lil' Fizz, Illegal with Lil' Maliky Lil' Mo, Lil' Bow Wow had beef with Lil' Romeo A lil' teenager told me so.
Edward Anderson
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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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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
Ed Sheeran
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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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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
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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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Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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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.
ASAP Rocky