Hop Quotes

Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

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

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

You stackin cheddar cause you working at the burger place.

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.

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

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 was super-exotic to us in Canada.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

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

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

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

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

Been brainwashed since age 2 I only had imaginary friends And still do And they hate you

We got it on lock like Barack got the nomination

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

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

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

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.