Hip Hop Quotes
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Earl Stevens
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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
Jay-Z
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I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.
Nicki Minaj
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Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.
Bakari Kitwana
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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.
Nicki Minaj
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I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.
Estelle
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Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.
Jay-Z
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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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A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.
Kanye West
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I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.
Nate Dogg
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Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire
Nicki Minaj
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I want a girl with extensions in her hair, Bamboo earrings, at least two pair, A Fendi bag and a bad attitude, That's all I need to get me in a good mood. She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang, I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing.
LL Cool J
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I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.
Bakari Kitwana
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We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.
LL Cool J
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With this hip-hop generation they think about who has gold teeth, instead of the destiny of mankind.
Orlando Jones
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I ain't Mary, so ain't a damn thing Poppin'.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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It's a part of hip-hop, rave culture. But moving on from whistles, in the future we want to release Greco-Roman wine. Our friends are getting too old to go clubbing, but they will still have to buy our wine if we release it.
Joe Goddard The 2 Bears
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Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.
Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls