Hip Hop Quotes
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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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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
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I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
Tatiana Maslany
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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
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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
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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
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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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
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I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Earl Stevens
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For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.
Jacoby Shaddix
Papa Roach
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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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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
Yelawolf
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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
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You got to have style, and learn to be original.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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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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In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes
Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang
Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
