Hip Hop Quotes
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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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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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We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
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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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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 sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.
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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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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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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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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
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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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The steak ain't right without the A-1
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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'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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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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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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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.
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Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.
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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.
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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.
