Hip Hop Quotes
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Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.
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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.
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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 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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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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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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All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...
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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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I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.
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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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We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.
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Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.
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Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
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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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Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
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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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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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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.
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Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.
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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.
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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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Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.
