Hip Hop Quotes

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

I stay dipped like the first day of school.

Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Parents just don't understand.

Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

Move over just a bit to the right of me, For I cannot see Where the booty is.

Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

They call me superman, I'm here to rescue you.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!

I can't relate to livin' less than great.

Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that, Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.

Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena

Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

Once you find your lane, you can't cruise; When you define the game, you can't lose.

In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.