Hip hop Quotes · Page 40

In the future, hip-hop is going to be called American folklore.

— KRS-One

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

— Damian Marley

I always say that I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm definitely a Drake fan.

— Mannie Fresh

You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me: Be too nice, and people take you for a dummy.

— Daniel Dumile

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

— Seinabo Sey

Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

— Kanye West

Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life

— Drake

I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.

— LL Cool J

Someone at Tidal came to our show in New York in 2016, and I guess he was expecting, like, K-Pop. But he…

— Jay Park

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies,…

— Common

Why is the world round? Why do the suckas bite? Why do the freaks come out at night? Why they paint Jesus…

— Lee Majors

I started writing rhymes in fact when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was actually into hip hop before anything else.

— Jay Sean

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or…

— Bruno Mars

I don't think any other hip-hop artist has achieved what I've achieved or the numbers I've sold without commercial radio. MTV and…

— Too Short

How You Like That' has Blackpink's own color and it's more powerful than the previous songs. We tried to put in pop,…

— Jisoo

Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing…

— Pharoahe Monch

I remember when I fell from my first bike: There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?' Just dirt…

— Big K.R.I.T

Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real…

— LL Cool J

HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS)... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or…

— Jimmy Page

I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes. I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not…

— Aceyalone

Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story…

— Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Bands get passed down as a tradition because people say to their kids: 'You want to hear this, because this right here…

— B-Real

So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first…

— Kanye West

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

— Wyclef Jean

I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over

— Drake

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

— Iceberg Slim

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

— KRS-One

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

— C. Delores Tucker

Ima give yall that cold shoulder, let'em see how my shoulder chill

— Chamillionaire

I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal

— The Notorious B.I.G

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

— GZA

I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

— Drake

If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American.

— KRS-One

I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same.

— Drake

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

— Kool Moe Dee

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

— Busta Rhymes

I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.

— Xavier Woods

Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

— Daniel Dumile

I totally embrace the different transformations we've seen in hip-hop throughout the years.

— Frank Dukes