Hip Hop Quotes

• 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

• That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Know
  • English

• 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

• 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
  • People
  • Singing
  • Context

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

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Inspired
  • Old
  • Hip Hop

• I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Rap
  • Ass
  • Fronts

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

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Hip Hop
  • Call

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

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Sound
  • Influence
  • Hip Hop

• As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

  

  Zendaya
  • Years
  • Dancing
  • Hip Hop

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

  

  Corey Brent Penn
  • God
  • Rap
  • Over You

• Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.

  

  Nathan John Feuerstein
  • Hip Hop
  • Veins
  • Bleed

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Thought

• 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

• 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 feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Real slow hits from the bong...

  

  Louis Mario Freese
  • Real
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• 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

• 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

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