Hip Hop Quotes

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

...But until then, I'ma shine to the last sin, Resurrect through the birth of my son, and live again.

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me

I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

Game recognize game in The Bay mane.

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

I'd always loved hip-hop.

I own the night...the heat's my receipt.

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.

I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart.

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade.

Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

I said it's all good and it's all in fun Now get in the pit and try to love someone

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

I never let the worst things in life get the best of me. So take these testes and, ummm...open sesame.

You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.