Hip hop Quotes · Page 26

Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster.

— KRS-One

Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

— B-Real

My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

— Masta Ace

It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

— K'naan

I love rap. I love hip-hop. But something is wrong when every song, no matter what, has got a rap.

— Shaun Ryder

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

— Saul Williams

Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters, Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better.

— Sean Price

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

— Steve Coogan

I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.

— Jay-Z

If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war. If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never…

— MF Grimm

Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous.

— Kevin Young

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had…

— Drake

I love rap, and part of hip-hop culture is being excessive and absurd, and I can't be excessive and absurd without sounding…

— Lil Dicky

They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though…

— Bishop Nehru

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip…

— Nelly Furtado

I love music as a whole. Country music, hip-hop. I just like people being passionate with what they love to do.

— Jimmy Butler

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label…

— Travis Scott

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was…

— Nas

My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in…

— Kid Cudi

I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson.…

— DJ Khaled

For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of…

— Chuck D

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't…

— Wale

The age of the rock star was coterminous with rock n' roll, which, in spite of all the promises made in some…

— David Hepworth

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it…

— Rick Rubin

Two wrongs don't make it right, but it damn sure makes us even.

— Kirk Jones

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

— Afrika Bambaataa

Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven, Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7.

— Immortal Technique

Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.

— Rakim

I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.

— Rick Ross

I be more hipper than a hippopotamus Get off in your head like a neurologist

— E-40

These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

— Chuck D

Ray J and Princess on 'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.' I believe in them.

— Spencer Pratt

'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em

— Zack de la Rocha

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

— Doc Brown

You couldn't make the crowd throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.

— Eminem

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

— David Bowie

If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land.

— KJIVA

Nuthin' can avoid this shot 'cause it's hittin' It's so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

— Eazy-E

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

— Asher Roth

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany