Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of… — Prince Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
New York is always claiming East, and Los Angeles is always claiming West. It's in everything: acting, hip-hop, sports. But I love… — Jo Koy Copy Share Image
I've definitely seen huge shifts, but the church is a little afraid of hip-hop, and hip-hop is a little afraid of the… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me... Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief,… — RZA Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The only memorable people who came to Guernsey in my lifetime were Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 - I swear that was… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
The ghetto music of my era is hip-hop. And Parliament, and Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye, that was all the ghetto stuff… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible… — One9 Copy Share Image
I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope,… — GZA Copy Share Image
Im a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in 96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq.… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really… — Nomi Ruiz Copy Share Image
Everyone uses grime as a footstool, but imagine Biggie Smalls started doing hip hop, and it started going well, and then he… — Big Narstie Copy Share Image
There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The… — Al Green Copy Share Image
My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant?… — Chino XL Copy Share Image
I was in high school and college as hip-hop was really sort of coming into its own as a, you know, creative… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
I came out with sounds that didn't sound like the usual hip-hop beat. I took that chance because no one would identify… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
“Hopeful dreams - even where crack kings’ and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Usually because of our ethnicity we would be labeled a 'Latino Hip Hop' group. But we were able to get past that… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50. So why don't you just rhyme like 50? Then, you could get the money… — MF Grimm Copy Share Image
The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school '90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
As I turned around to receive my injection, I said, 'Next time I'll use some protection.' If I see another girl and… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop,… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was… — Estelle Copy Share Image
I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together… — Kreayshawn Copy Share Image
I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start… — Biz Markie Copy Share Image
![“I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime.” quote by Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ff/jim-jarmusch-3256_bob_i-think-we-need-to-sort-of-broaden-our-d_681950.jpg)
![“I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.” quote by Schoolboy Q](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/463/schoolboy-q-15853_causes_i-m-one-dude-that-writes-his-adlibs-i-do_66200.jpg)
