Hip Hop Quotes
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I wear black while suckers wear pink.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.
Andy Bell Oasis
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Suckas on my jock when I walk down the block, I really don't care if you're jealous or not.
LL Cool J
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Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.
Lindsey Vonn
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Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
Baratunde Thurston
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Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.
Bakari Kitwana
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All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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Think about it, if you was there standing looking at me. What would you do, if I hit your face with dog doo-doo?
Keith Matthew Thornton
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And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.
Bakari Kitwana
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Once you find your lane, you can't cruise;
Ka
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My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own.
Tariq Trotter
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I'm cold gettin' paid cause Rick said so.
LL Cool J
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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
Jay-Z
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There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Beyonce, Lil Wayne.
Manika
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For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul come from black innovation. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
Michael Jackson
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I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.
Sean Michael Daley Atmosphere
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The poor get worked, the rich get richer,
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.
Michael Rapaport
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Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough
Jay-Z
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I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.
Bakari Kitwana
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It's a kick-ass lineup. We know you're going to have a sloppy good time. We made a concerted effort to book more hip-hop this year, and to mix it with a bunch of other amazing things too. And what we've ended up with is a beautiful, amazing thing.
Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction