Hip Hop Quotes

It's hot on my block, somebody turn the fan on I've been paid, I'm just tryin to turn my mans on.

You've been fightin again and, you forgot why Hey kid, walk straight, master your high

Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

You stackin cheddar cause you working at the burger place.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.

...So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

I am street hip-hop brother. That's my biggest message with that one.

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

Stop hating on a n*gga that is a weak emotion, the lady of a n*gga.

They say the good die young, so the bad die old. Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.

It was Saturday night and I was feelin kinda funny, Gold around my neck, pockets full of money.

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's

"I got niggaz lookin' for Websters like George Papadopolis'

I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.

Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

Nowadays, the game is all bugged out, Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

Been brainwashed since age 2 I only had imaginary friends And still do And they hate you

We got it on lock like Barack got the nomination

Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive. So the day some niggaz come for you, I'm really not surprised.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.