Hip Hop Quotes
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In general I’m not a big fan of hip hop, even though I worked with Kanye. I did the Kanye stuff not because I’m a fan, but because for me it’s interesting to make some new music in an old style.
Mike Levy
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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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I wear black while suckers wear pink.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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Once you find your lane, you can't cruise;
Ka
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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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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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When you first break into the music scene, everyone is so naive. I was only nineteen when i started happening whith 'Charly' and I was so into the rave scene - apart from hip hop, I was blind to everything else.
Liam Howlett The Prodigy
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I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.
Estelle
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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
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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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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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If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
Jay-Z
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I'm cold gettin' paid cause Rick said so.
LL Cool J
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I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.
David Banner
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The poor get worked, the rich get richer,
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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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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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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You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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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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Up against Goliath, to bring butter home.
Ka
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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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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
Yasiin Bey Black Star