There comes a time in every man's life when he's gotta handle up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help… — Slimkid3 Copy Share Image
It's very natural for me to sing in English and have a tabla in an arrangement, to have hip-hop beats but sing… — Vidya Vox Copy Share Image
All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I… — Nas Copy Share Image
It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start, Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the… — Xzibit Copy Share Image
As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Before they could begin, you told them it was the end. So I am here to reverse the curse that they live… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I have a lot of variety on my iPod. Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, artists like that, but I also listen to hip-hop… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
I break an emcee off proper Yo don't check me, Ask your Moms and Pops, Yo they respect me, But here you… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches,… — Swizz Beatz Copy Share Image
I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
If Death Grips isn't the fourth horseman of a hip-hop apocalypse, its music at least tests the genre's threshold of extremity: The… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Americanomics works, and I won't argue that is true. But if the economy is getting better, getting better for who? Well, if… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
Call me what you want b*tch, call me on my sidekick Never answer when it's private, d*mn I hate a shy b*tch… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about… — Todd Boyd Copy Share Image
Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher… — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Hip-hop music has been my programming. It's been my love. When I was a kid, hearing Eminem, G-Unit for the first time,… — Jesse Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Dead Prez is playing on the car’s stereo, telling me that it’s bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Rock on, my mellow!" "B-boys, b-girls, are you ready?" "This is the joint!" "To the beat, y'all!" "You don't stop! — Kool DJ Herc Copy Share Image
If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget That God isn't finished with me yet. I feel His hand on my brain...… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then… — Beck Copy Share Image
You've got to be true to who you are and what you do. I'm more of a hip-hop feel person. Music is… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for… — Ice T Copy Share Image
That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop,… — Alan Vega Copy Share Image
I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word. — Sean Price Copy Share Image
It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my… — Toni Braxton Copy Share Image
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. — Fab Five Freddy Copy Share Image
The thing about hip-hop producers, and the thing about hip-hop musicians, is that we listen to everything. And we're inspired by everything.… — El-P Copy Share Image
“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work” — Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Copy Share Image
So when I'm listening to music, I'm listening to a lot of hip-hop to be inspired and to hear new things. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my… — Jayceon Terrell Taylor Copy Share Image
