Hip Quotes

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.

I've been watching battle rap since that time period when Cassidy was hot, Murda Mook and Lux first when at it. That was a very pivotal time in hip-hop.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

...So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

You stackin cheddar cause you working at the burger place.

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

They say the good die young, so the bad die old. Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.

I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's

"I got niggaz lookin' for Websters like George Papadopolis'

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

It was Saturday night and I was feelin kinda funny, Gold around my neck, pockets full of money.

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons

I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

I am street hip-hop brother. That's my biggest message with that one.

Stop hating on a n*gga that is a weak emotion, the lady of a n*gga.

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.

Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive. So the day some niggaz come for you, I'm really not surprised.

I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.

Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop.

We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.

And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

Nowadays, the game is all bugged out, Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

We got it on lock like Barack got the nomination

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.