Hops Quotes · Page 17

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

— Jess Row

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

— Russell Simmons

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane.…

— Sean Kingston

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history,…

— Anonymous

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

— Jack Tatum

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.

— TyDi

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!

— Felipe Esparza

There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n'…

— El-P

I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen…

— J. Cole

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I…

— Talib Kweli

I think I'm the future of hip-hop. You know, I feel bad for saying that. That's unfortunate, but that's a fact. You…

— Spencer Pratt

If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover…

— Mike Shinoda

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

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then…

— Ice T

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the…

— Stephen Malkmus

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.

— Thomas Pynchon

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

— Jake Shimabukuro

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop…

— Mayer Hawthorne

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

— Lupe Fiasco

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,

— Donald Byrd

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and…

— Lewis Black

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats…

— Gold Panda

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

— Afrika Bambaataa

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.

— Stephen Boss

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta…

— Chuck D

“AROMA (OLD WORLD) HOPS Cascade Cluster East Kent Goldings Fuggle Hallertauer Hersbrucker Tettnang Willamette”

— Amy Stewart

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

— Steve Stoute

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of…

— Nas

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a…

— Etgar Keret

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson

When you start to become famous, you can hop into any kind of field just because of the name you have and…

— Tyga

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

— Baratunde Thurston

From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.

— Randy Savage

Did the record [Danger] do well? I believe it did what it should have. It showed the hip hop community that Tony…

— Tony Sunshine

Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other...

— Canibus

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of…

— Jess Row

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

— Luther Campbell

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

— KRS-One

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up…

— James Vincent McMorrow