Hop Quotes
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.”
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
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.
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.
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.