Hip Hop Quotes
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With this hip-hop generation they think about who has gold teeth, instead of the destiny of mankind.
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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.
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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.
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Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive.
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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.
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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.
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We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.
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All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...
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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.
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I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.
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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.
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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.
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Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
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Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.
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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.
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I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.
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Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
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I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to get a message across it was more powerful when I told a story, rather than if I used a metaphor or if I preached about an issue. And through doing that I realised that actually these stories were very visual in my head and I couldn't wait to make the videos.
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Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.
