Hip Hop Quotes
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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 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 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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We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.
Ka
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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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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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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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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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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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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 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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Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
Jay-Z
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I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.
Bakari Kitwana
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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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Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive.
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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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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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
James Anthony Robinson
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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.
Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
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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 ain't Mary, so ain't a damn thing Poppin'.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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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
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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