Hip Hop Quotes
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This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse rock music and indie rock music in terms of popularity, which it has certainly gone on to do. But you know, this is the end of the 1980s, beginning of the '90s. The whole independent label thing has really evolved to this incredible point from the early '80s when we started, and there wasn't one record label at all, until a couple people started forming these small labels.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
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 love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
Tatiana Maslany -
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.
Aloe Blacc -
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 -
You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
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 -
Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.
Yelawolf
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Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.
Kim Nam-joon BTS -
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 -
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 -
Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
Aloe Blacc -
Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Earl Stevens
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
Yelawolf -
As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
Zendaya -
There's divinity within because we come from the divine, A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time: When the wind blows, and the world turns, And the rain drops, and the baby cries, And the bird flies, and the ground quake, And the stars gleam.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.
Corey Brent Penn
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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 -
You got to have style, and learn to be original.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
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 -
In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang
Jermaine Dupri Mauldin