Hip hop Quotes · Page 82

“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

See life is a game of chess, try your best to not be the pun, calculate every step make'em kiss the ring…

— Chamillionaire

Very often I'm told that my heart's cold. That I'm the type to let my eyes speak what my mouth won't. That…

— Needa Muy

I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper…

— The Notorious B.I.G

Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me,…

— Christian McBride

I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this,…

— India.Arie

“...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.…

— Saul Williams

Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip…

— Raekwon

You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of…

— K-Maro

“And as the recession continues and our prospects look bleaker and bleaker, I’m excited. I look to the past to see what…

— Sarra Manning

Well, we have to realize the truth about the person who is a hip-hop insider. Most of these people are not really…

— MC Hammer

I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power…

— Bakari Kitwana

I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a…

— Russell Simmons

You heard about, through word of mouth, Big Bird is out, he's in the house. He's turnin' up, with Snuffleup, They're really…

— Black Thought

Rack city bitch, rack, rack, city bitch, Rack city bitch, rack, rack, city bitch, Rack city bitch, rack, rack, city bitch, Rack…

— Emilio Vasquez

Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that,…

— Sofia Quintero

Americanomics works, and I won't argue that is true. But if the economy is getting better, getting better for who? Well, if…

— Kool Moe Dee

When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back…

— Moshe Kasher

You know them days you just got the blues, All stressed and depressed from just watchin' the news? No matter what good…

— MURS

I thought that the R&B / Hip-Hop world really hasn't been explored on film and there's some issues that we're going through…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them, Others try to block the memories and just delete them. But I keep…

— Immortal Technique

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

— Common

Anyone remember Hip-Hop and the 90s? When a person could sit on his porch drinking Gin & Juice while Killing Me Softly…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

I just go in and do the best that I can at whatever I'm doin'. I custom make things for each artist…

— Dr Dre

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would…

— Raymond Chandler

“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could…

— Mark Fisher

“As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic…

— H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman

“1. Close Friend, someone who got yo back, yo "main nigga." 2. Rooted in blackness and the Black experience. From a middle-aged…

— H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman

“Blue jeans, white shirt Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn It was like, James Dean, for sure…

— Lana Del Rey

That's when we, that's when we, that's when we ride. That's when we, that's when we ride on these bitches. That's when…

— Hollywood Undead

Ooh, I've been travelin' on this road to long Just trying to find, my way back home The old me, is dead…

— TI Featuring Justin Timberlake