I feel like no matter what we do though, we'll always have hip-hop and a little bit of R&B in our music. — Rose Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I was a stay-at-home dad. So I could actually focus on being a rapper. I could write. I could… — Blueface Copy Share Image
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
Rap is more of a poetry and a way to express one's feelings, but they're starting to mess it up and I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
LIL B WINS EVERYTHING THERE IS NO HIP HOP ARTIST BETTER THEN LIL B BECAUSE LIL B IS ONE OF A KIND… — LIL B Copy Share Image
Me and Dre go back so far - a long 30 years - even before N.W.A. The way we talk to each… — DJ Yella Copy Share Image
Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude. — Lecrae Copy Share Image
I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t,… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, white people made fun of me. So it was always strange to me as I would gain… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take… — E-40 Copy Share Image
Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash,… — Watkin Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I think, a lot of times, the mistake in music - even rappers that are trying to be big time - if… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
'Hustle & Flow' came out, and I was really rooting for 'Hustle & Flow' because, you know, it was a hip-hop movie,… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I've never made R&B. I've never made gospel. I've never made hip-hop - I don't think I'm going to, but I just… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my… — Gold Panda Copy Share Image
Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
It's been a long time coming, but I came now everybody in the rap game know my name, but honey ain't a… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Being from Atlanta I grew up on Kilo Ali and Outkast... the only Biggie song I knew was 'Juicy.' — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
I've definitely seen huge shifts, but the church is a little afraid of hip-hop, and hip-hop is a little afraid of the… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I… — Taylor Townsend Copy Share Image
All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it. — Watkin Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
Kendrick Lamar represents Compton's evolution, embodying the New Vision for Compton - Purpose, Prosperity, and Progress. — Aja Brown Copy Share Image
Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
This the third verse let's get to a conclusion. Image is a smokescreen, rappers are illusions. — Gorilla Zoe Copy Share Image
I know a beat is good for me when I can just start rapping. It's usually hard for me to do that. — Saweetie Copy Share Image
I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one… — Jacob Artist Copy Share Image
I tried to put 2 and 2 togetha but that just makes 4 not 4eva!-lil wayne ft. t-pain HOW TO HATE..Carter IV!!! — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
I been listening to Rick Ross and all the guy raps about is cars he can't even fit in.. WTF — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too. — Prefuse 73 Copy Share Image
It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
I dunno, around 11th grade, 12th grade I was just like "yeah. This is something I want to do". I was always… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You aint gotta hold your tongue. — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
![“Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.” quote by Meghan Trainor](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/6b9/meghan-trainor-12695_best-friend_ricky-s-reed-a-lot-like-me-he-always-say_3018257.jpg)
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