Hops Quotes · Page 18

Hip-hop didn't invent anything… hip-hop re-invented everything.

— Grandmaster Caz

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our…

— Eric Thomas

I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.

— Bakari Kitwana

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I…

— Dan Chaon

How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

— RZA

America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the…

— Russell Simmons

I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin,…

— Josh Young

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's…

— K-Maro

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long…

— Tupac Shakur

I'm working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It's going to be a free online mixtape. I think it's going…

— SonReal

We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death.

— Immortal Technique

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

— Talib Kweli

Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I…

— Common

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 now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long.…

— J. Cole

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

How much for the bottle, put it on my tab. Hop out like a model all them foreign tags. Get so drunk…

— Wiz Khalifa

I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind…

— Curtis Jackson

It still feels like Hip Hop is in the early '80s on Broadway.

— Rafael Casal

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

— Afrika Bambaataa

Kangoroos can't hop backwards.

— Daniel Tosh

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

— Lauryn Hill

I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I…

— Angie Martinez