Hip hop Quotes · Page 30

I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.

— Vinnie Paz

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

— Sage Francis

You screamin' 'no homo', but that's so homo Such a no-no, please swallow the .44

— Reks

I don't wanna dance, baby girl, it's like my legs is on strike.

— Killa Sin

If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march? I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

— Jayceon Terrell Taylor

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents

— Rakim

God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to…

— Killer Mike

I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

— Rick Ross

I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my…

— Jayceon Terrell Taylor

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making…

— Brian McKnight

So when I'm listening to music, I'm listening to a lot of hip-hop to be inspired and to hear new things.

— Ludwig Goransson

“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

The thing about hip-hop producers, and the thing about hip-hop musicians, is that we listen to everything. And we're inspired by everything.…

— El-P

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my…

— Toni Braxton

I want to be the bridge. I embrace it. I don't mind being a leader. I don't mind opening the doors. I…

— LeCrae

I don't feel that Hip Hop is mine, I feel like I have a pass in this thing of ours that we…

— Benny the Butcher

Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids -…

— Michael Rapaport

It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining…

— Chuck D

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

Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like…

— Michael Eric Dyson

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do -…

— Brandon Flowers

When I am performing live, I walk into a room, and I just try to get a feel for the vibe, and…

— Grandmaster Flash

I'm givin' more flat lines to niggas than loose-leaf.

— Kool G Rap

The God's tropical...ladies call me 'Black Fruit Punch.'

— Ghostface Killah

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

— Chanel West Coast

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.

— Lil' Kim

I'm different than the normal NASCAR driver, I listen to hip-hop music.

— Denny Hamlin

Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

— James May

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

— Casey Spooner

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

— Tina Yothers

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

— Nas

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower, Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.

— J-Ro

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

— Talib Kweli

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

— Eve

I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it.

— Drake

When I come through, your like a kid in the tub, you might wanna duck.

— Anonymous

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

Live each day like your last...one day you'll be right.

— MF Grimm