Hip hop Quotes · Page 23

Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.

— Slick Rick

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

— Erykah Badu

I hope everybody out here is supporting hip-hop and trying to make it continue on.

— Big Daddy Kane

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

— Big Daddy Kane

I call wild niggas together like Cyrus, And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus.

— Bumpy Knuckles

An undercover agent sent by goverment to kill hip hop.

— Soulja Boy

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth

— Drake

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

— David Byrne

Did the record [Danger] do well? I believe it did what it should have. It showed the hip hop community that Tony…

— Tony Sunshine

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough…

— DJ Premier

I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what…

— Mike D

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is…

— Grandmaster Flash

If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have…

— John Cena

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never…

— Vanessa Brown

My playlist on game day kind of varies. Some days I may be in an R&B mood and that's what pumps me…

— Jarvis Landry

I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out

— Jay-Z

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out…

— Isaac Hayes

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people…

— Chris Cornell

Start dancing immediately. Run to the closest dance studio, and study the style of dance of the music you love. If you…

— Toni Basil

I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I…

— Galcher Lustwerk

What's when you rap and don't appreciate the art? What's when you sell out just to get a start? What's when you…

— Lord Finesse

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a…

— Jamila Woods

I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop…

— Boots Riley

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because…

— Ben Horowitz

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

— Kanye West

A born terror, a rebel without a pause... Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

— Shyheim

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.

— Inspectah Deck

Whatever floats your boat...or finds your lost remote...

— Andre Benjamin

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

— Lil Wayne

There's a war going on outside no man is safe from. You can run but you can't hide forever.

— Prodigy

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

— Kendrick Lamar

When you a man, action is whats expected, nothing is spoken on.

— Talib Kweli

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

— Mayer Hawthorne

I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.

— Chauncey Billups

There is very little room for humor and personality in hip-hop.

— Andy Mineo

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

— Derek Luke

What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

— J-Ro

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip…

— Coolio

Oh baby you ..got what I need but you say he's just a friend

— Biz Markie

We need a few more Kanyes, people that's really passionate about hip-hop and who keep it alive.

— Rakim