Hip Quotes

Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.

Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator.

If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and they wanna know Oh oh oh oh yeah If you are what you say you are Then have no fear

Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.

My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

Ayo for yayo Walk around with yayo, all in my nasal I must have been craze yo

Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show

They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

And I'm telling you now the frustration The future's facing from the anger in the nation.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.

I'm like Demerol... No disrespect to the Jacksons, but I kill mics.

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

Next time you see a brother down Stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie.

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

She gets naughty with her Pilates body And she thinks it's really funny when her nose goes bloody

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

I'm feeling like Billy the Kidd, skinny B.I.G. You literally live like a guinea pig

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet, I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

So sucker MC's, please think twice; Would you join the navy if you didn't like the gravy and rice?

It started back in '79, My whole darn future was on the line. I created a brand new sensation Through my mind and the whole darn nation.

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.