Hip Quotes

What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

I wanna lie to you sometimes...but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good...but it ain't.

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

In this lifetime, you got two things: Bad and good, and ain't nothin' in between.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks, So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox, ...But that's another topic.

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.

If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.

15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things that I needed to study as far as learning about flows and learning about lyrics.

The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.

I never boned a honey that I didn't like, I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike. I never had a spliff to make me choke, I never had a pocket that was broke.

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.

I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.

Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.

I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.

Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

Why's my name the Large Professor? Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.

We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays.

According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!