Hip Hop Quotes
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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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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.
Ka
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
James Anthony Robinson
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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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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 agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.
Bakari Kitwana
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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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Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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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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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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Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.
Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
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Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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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
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It's a weird sound inspired by a hip hop drum loop. I listen to a lot of hip hop tracks and it's not used quite often in House currently. I chopped up the loop and edited it so you wouldn't recognize the original.
Martin Garrix Area21