Hip Hop Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
Jay-Z
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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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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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I'm cold gettin' paid cause Rick said so.
LL Cool J
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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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We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We could make the same case about the church and our government. But hip-hop, like society, isn't one dimensional.
Bakari Kitwana
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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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The poor get worked, the rich get richer,
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth.
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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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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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
