Hip hop Quotes · Page 23

I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.

— Rakim

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.

— Richard Ashcroft

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

— Zaha Hadid

I get a lot a brain... I'm a genius, More rings than Saturn but I'm hot like Venus.

— J-Dawg

I wanna lie to you sometimes...but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good...but it ain't.

— Cee Lo Green

I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

— Rakim

Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

— Derek Luke

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape…

— Ice T

I have to think 30 times before I do or say anything because I'm representing a whole race to the world in…

— Nav

We've been in the game for so long, it's great to be honored for our contributions to the game of hip-hop and…

— Pepa

I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything…

— Alex Clare

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry…

— Missy Elliot

Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low…

— Phonte

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies…

— Nicki Minaj

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know…

— Tyga

It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching…

— Pete Rock

I've loved hip-hop all of my life, but there came a time in my life when my entire life had a shift:…

— Trip Lee

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie…

— John Legend

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop…

— Trey Songz

Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing…

— Alicia Keys

To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the…

— Lazarus of Bethany

I try to take elements from all kinds of music. Even if I'm listening to anything off the wall, like Britney Spears,…

— Metro Boomin

I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.

— Mat Kearney

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

— Quincy Jones

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

— Method Man

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

— James Mercer

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

— Angel Haze

Niggas tried to holla, but couldn't holla back Now they gots to swallow, everything in the sack.

— DMX

I never see the whips niggas be claimin' they drivin, I guess 'entertainment' means blatantly lyin'.

— Nas

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

— Theophilus London

Now if I worry too much about all my have nots, I might not recognize just what I've got...

— Mike G

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

— GZA

I'm not going to try to sell soul to the hip-hop generation unless I got some money behind me.

— Van Hunt

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

— Miguel

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker

— MC Hammer

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

— Bakari Kitwana

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

— Chuck D

I get attention like a Lexus, girls wanna sex this Play rappers like Tetris...eat em like breakfast.

— Lord Finesse