Hip Hop Quotes
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Perm in your hair or even a curly weave, Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve. I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,' Cause brothers been popping that game all day.
LL Cool J
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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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Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Earl Stevens
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There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.
Baratunde Thurston
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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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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
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Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
LL Cool J
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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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I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.
Andre Louis Hicks
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm a child of the 70's. R&B to me is Curtis Mayfield. Then a transition came in and I was part of the Hip Hop era when Sugar and Kane came out. That was a good transition for me. Then now R&B is Hip Hop and Hip Hop is R&B.
D'wayne Wiggins
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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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When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.
Akon
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When you first break into the music scene, everyone is so naive. I was only nineteen when i started happening whith 'Charly' and I was so into the rave scene - apart from hip hop, I was blind to everything else.
Liam Howlett The Prodigy
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Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
Jay-Z
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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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I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang,
Andre Louis Hicks