Hip Quotes

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really hands on with Morgan & Andrew while writing and producing the record.

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the streets to be first.

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

My album will manifest many things I saw,did or heard about; I talk first hand never word of mouth.

Rappers are in danger Who will use wits to be a remainder?

A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips.

You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.

It still feels like Hip Hop is in the early '80s on Broadway.

I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.

I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.

Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.

I think things are gonna change. I'm gonna take the age limit off of hip hop.

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's... Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.

Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

The borders and boundaries of hip-hop have been broken all over the world. There's a great scene everywhere you go.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

My nards aren't clean Ive been partying With Charlie Sheen

And when I'm in my car I'm laid back I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat But that's flat

There comes a time in every man's life when he's gotta handle up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze, Please...they got problems of their own.

He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size, I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide.

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.