Hip Hop Quotes
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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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Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Earl Stevens
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
LL Cool J
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Where I grew up in the middle of Georgia, hip-hop is king, and on Friday and Saturday nights, local DJs do mixes. It's a great mix of local stuff and then some of the bigger hits and remixes of the hits, and it just has this nice flow with a dirty-South sound to everything.
Washed Out
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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.
Iggy Azalea
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As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
Zendaya
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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
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I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.
Andre Louis Hicks
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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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Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.
Malik Izaak Taylor
A Tribe Called Quest
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Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level,
But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.
Malik Izaak Taylor
A Tribe Called Quest
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MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em,
And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em.
I'm the best takin' out all rookies,
So forget Oreos...eat Cool J cookies.
LL Cool J
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Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
Aloe Blacc
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I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Earl Stevens
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Every little boy wanna pick up the mic,
And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype.
But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike,
Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.
LL Cool J
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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 have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
Jay-Z
