Hip Quotes

i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns

Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

You are what you listen to

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.

Commercial rap get the gun clap, day after day.

So much leather inside my car my horn moos.

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

You're mad 'cause my style you're admiring. Don't be mad, UPS is hiring.

I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

I cannot stand no wack MC. So step back if you please, And don't test me, you're history.

God works in different ways and it shows... And everybody knows, love comes and goes.

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

Slavery is more mental than anything

Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk with so much emphasis Ooh they so sensitive

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

We love it where we from, but we kick it where we at.

I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.

They say you're nobody til somebody kills you But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody

I'm the type that'll give any man a chance to come correct before leavin in a ambulance

Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

Ladies love me when I spray the mic But there aint no "I" in snuggling Aint no "U" in "Stay the night"

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

It's hard bein' real in a world that's a fallacy.

You pout like a trout in a drought...can't get out. You want to scream, but fish can't shout.

Live each day like your last...one day you'll be right.

I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.

On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.