Don't cheer me, just hear me Out 'cause I got the clout-shout (Ho!) Before I turn the party out — Rob Base Copy Share Image
Birfdays was the worst days, Now we sip champagne when we thirstay uh — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
Been there, done that Sold crack, got jacked Got shot, came back Jumped on Dre's back! — Jayceon Terrell Taylor Copy Share Image
To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude. — Questlove Copy Share Image
Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69. — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Copy Share Image
Cash rules everything around me, cream get the moeny. Dolla dolla bills yall. — Wu Tang Clan Copy Share Image
Life is like the waters of the ocean. Beautiful but deadly. Do you have walking on water faith, or you doubt who… — Anthony Villa Copy Share Image
Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse, My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse. I come rough, tough… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters. — Randy Savage Copy Share Image
L.A. hip-hop is so different; it's so diverse. Out here, it's, like, funk-inspired; it's, like, '70s-skating-rink-inspired at times. It's Zapp-and-Roger-inspired; it's house-party-era-inspired. — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass... Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass. — J-Ro Copy Share Image
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop. — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
Everything that one sets their mind to do is in today and out tomorrow so we have to get to the point… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like 'Clockers' to playing a doctor… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
If we actually supported these gay artists and pumped money behind them the same way they pump money behind these divas, a… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag: The blue is for the Crips, the red is for… — RZA Copy Share Image
On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition. — Positive K Copy Share Image
Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: The poor are the ones who inherit the debt. — Kelvin Mercer Copy Share Image
You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you. — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it. — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Every girl wanna hold my chain when I f#%k their brains out on the Mustang — Simon Rex Copy Share Image
They say the streets is a demon in a dress, Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway. — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
You can call me gay or a tutti-frutti But I won't touch it until I know whose booty — Erick Sermon Copy Share Image
Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on! — Everlast Copy Share Image
There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show — Big L Copy Share Image
I feel like we all are guests. Hip Hop don't belong to none of us. — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
