Hip Hop Quotes
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Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Earl Stevens -
I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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I think rock music is getting better. The best (selling) music has been hip-hop for quite a while. So those guys are making the money and making the videos.
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
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 -
Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
Just cause niggas get behind you don't mean they got your back Beware of the serpent.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner -
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 -
With this hip-hop generation they think about who has gold teeth, instead of the destiny of mankind.
Orlando Jones
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Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.
Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls -
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
Baratunde Thurston -
Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.
J Dilla -
All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
Jay-Z -
There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.
Yelawolf
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Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest -
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 -
I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.
Bakari Kitwana -
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 -
Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.
Michael Rapaport -
Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.
Andy Bell Oasis
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I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
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 -
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 -
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