Hip hop Quotes · Page 12

I'm definitely not making fun of hip-hop.

— Rich Brian

I get more brain than an organ donor.

— J-Dawg

My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.

— Ras Kass

I make an ass clap like tap shoes.

— Driicky Graham

Young Juiceman, he a flamer!

— OJ da Juiceman

Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.

— Drake

“Tommie from love and hip hop.”

— Renae

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

— Jay-Z

I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.

— Mat Kearney

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker

— MC Hammer

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

— Chuck D

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

— Bakari Kitwana

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

— GZA

I'm not going to try to sell soul to the hip-hop generation unless I got some money behind me.

— Van Hunt

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

— Miguel

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

— Theophilus London

I never cared, I was careless, Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless. Or fear bein' fearless but fearful,…

— Joe Budden

Black Ken' debuted number one on iTunes in hip-hop, and top five or ten top, top five on the whole iTunes, on…

— Lil B

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's…

— Quincy Jones

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white…

— G-Eazy

Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

— Daniel Dumile

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest…

— Michael Rapaport

I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever…

— Nas

I never really considered myself super hip-hop, ever in life. I don't think anything that I've done reflects that.

— Damon Dash

When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the 'Pimp a Butterfly' sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. 'I want it to sound…

— Kamasi Washington

There she goes, the kind of girl that I wanted always. My favorite pro, oh I love how she got gangsta ways.…

— Nate Dogg

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave…

— Flavor Flav

I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge…

— Bakari Kitwana

I take the purest and hardest forms of music... and come in completely fresh from a production standpoint. It's like hip-hop production,…

— Fantastic Negrito

Won't cha...picture life as my wife, just think: Full length mink, fat X and O links, Bracelets to match, conversation was all…

— The Notorious B.I.G

I know the game, it's old and lame: You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame. Livin' like Givens schemin'…

— Kool Moe Dee

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula…

— Grandmaster Flash

You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

— Pharrell Williams

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

— Dr. Dre

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

— Grand Puba

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

— Rakim

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

— Nipsey Hussle

So put a quarter in your ass Cuz ya played ya'self

— Big Daddy Kane

Early '90s hip hop is my thing.

— Dylan Alcott

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

— Statik Selektah