Hip hop Quotes · Page 14

Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society…

— Bakari Kitwana

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea…

— Rakim

It's kinda hard bein humble in the belly of the struggle, Doin things that probably get you in trouble.

— Busta Rhymes

All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different styles that went along with…

— Virgil Abloh

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

— Kyle Gass

I saw the EDM world and wanted to be in that more than the hip-hop world.

— Riff Raff

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

— Nelly

I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.

— Tash

I'm just an addict, addicted to music Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it.

— Rakim

Don't get me wrong - we love our hip-hop, but in its own context. Rap has no place in our music. Is…

— David Draiman

I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can…

— Adrian Younge

You definitely will not hear any hip hop at my show. Not that I don't think there's an art to that, but…

— Lorrie Morgan

I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the…

— Rakim

I am hip-hop!

— Anonymous

I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started…

— Chanel West Coast

My favorite hip hop album would be the 'Miseducation of Lauren Hill.'

— Carmen Carrera

I could make a sand castle out of hour glass sand.

— Yung Capo

The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.

— Drake

I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by, That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass…

— Ludacris

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

— Frank Dukes

Hip-hop has always been speaking about the way your brain is manipulated by stress and struggle because hip-hop is borne from struggle.

— Vic Mensa

It's a cold world, better pack your own heat.

— Redman

Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.

— Rakim