Hip hop Quotes · Page 16

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

— Mat Kearney

When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that.…

— Cardi B

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore…

— Ice T

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black…

— The D.O.C

“Make money make moves.”

— Bryant l capshaw Daddy Rich

I was born in Hip Hop. That's all I ever needed.

— KRS-One

I fell in love with hip-hop a little bit late; I grew up on Another Bad Creation and Kris Kross. But my…

— Karen Civil

There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a…

— No I.D

Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols…

— Slick Rick

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life,…

— Nas

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

— Sho Baraka

It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big…

— Talib Kweli

“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

I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as…

— MC Serch

Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna…

— Rakim

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to…

— Anonymous

I did Achozen with RZA and that was straight hip-hop.

— Shavo Odadjian

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

— Eminem

Rihanna is so into rock, and she gives me an empty canvas to work with. I get to do wild solos and…

— Nuno Bettencourt

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So…

— Positive K

When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was…

— Common

Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order…

— Kim Nam-joon

I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or…

— Pauly Shore