Hip Quotes

It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.

Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin.

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.”

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.

I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Hip-hop is storytelling.

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.

I believe what you believe and you believe what you believe and we'll agree to disagree. It's liberal tolerance meets dark ages denialism. It's very hip right now.

Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness.

Country's hip it's cool music.

As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.