Hip Quotes

MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em, And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em. I'm the best takin' out all rookies, So forget Oreos...eat Cool J cookies.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

Hit the club, and I'm mad cause they wont let us in. Now I'm about to go bad like drunk mexicans.

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

I'm not a sucka, so I don't need a bodyguard.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album Life Is Good, and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

I was about one drink away from my limit, In came a black dress with a black body in it, She looked so timid, it took me a minute To get her in focus

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

I think it's a beautiful thing how Hip Hop is received by the world.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

De La Soul, from the soul, black medallions, no gold.

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.

I'’ve been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop.

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do.

I thank God for Hip Hop because Marvin Gaye didn't have that and he was able to be that dope. For us to have that and more, I feel like it is up to us to be as dope as we can possibly be.

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop. I interrupt your little session...and wreck shop.

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

I got you open like supermarkets!

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.