Hops Quotes · Page 24

I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of…

— Solange Knowles

Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

— Steve Harvey

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

— Ajay Naidu

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express…

— Nas

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip…

— Nelly Furtado

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

— Busta Rhymes

When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a…

— KRS-One

I've sort of realized there's a definite pattern to my output at this point: there's an album that everybody sort of loves,…

— Jose James

Hip hop, this is church. Church, this is hip-hop. Y'all need to meet. I know you have some misconceptions about them, I…

— LeCrae

If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.

— Hildegard of Bingen

I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people…

— KRS-One

You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless…

— Nikki Giovanni

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

— Cornel West

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a…

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music."…

— Nas

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a…

— Jackie Collins

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo,…

— Jenny Lewis

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent…

— Baratunde Thurston

I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being…

— Asher Roth

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

— Kobe Bryant

Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very…

— John L. Parker Jr

I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But…

— Elvis Presley

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

Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

— Sean Price

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

— Kid Rock