Hip Hop Quotes

• 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.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Enemy
  • inspirational

• The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Sound
  • Influence
  • Hip Hop

• I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Inspired
  • Old
  • Hip Hop

• 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
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Boy

• 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
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Hip Hop

• You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Hip Hop
  • Call

• 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.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Kids
  • Reverse

• 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
  • Game
  • Name
  • Shame

• I call you once...you never dialed back. Twice...you never dialed back. Saturday morning, live, I'm on Soul Train, talkin' to Don Cornelius. Saturday night, my phone rings... Saturday night, I won't answer. Saturday night, my phone rings again... Saturday night, I don't answer.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Hip Hop
  • Compete

• 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
  • Conscious
  • Rock N Roll
  • Fallback

• I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Brain
  • Rap
  • Rapper

• In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

  

  Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
  • Money
  • Wit
  • Four

• I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Song
  • Fake
  • Hip Hop

• And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.

  

  Victor Mercer Army of the Pharaohs
  • Pain
  • Rap
  • Holes

• You got to have style, and learn to be original.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Style
  • Rap
  • Originals

• As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • Write
  • Rap

• 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.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

  

  Wale
  • Respect
  • Place
  • Start

• Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Rap
  • Labels
  • Crap

• Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.

  

  Corey Brent Penn
  • God
  • Rap
  • Over You

• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hip Hop

• Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

  

  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
  • Crazy
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Culture
  • Boys
  • Shady

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