Hops Quotes · Page 3

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

— Grandmaster Caz

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

— Liz Phair

I am street hip-hop brother. That's my biggest message with that one.

— Styles P

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

— Hoodie Allen

Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

— Thomas Bangalter

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

— Jeremy Piven

It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

— Chuck D

Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.

— Rakim

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop…

— Lissie

She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I…

— Bob Dylan

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard,…

— Kid Rock

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Immortal Technique

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

— Mos Def

I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

— Zoey Deutch

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

If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS…

— KRS-One

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.…

— Jess Row

There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are…

— Manika

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very…

— Lauryn Hill

I love hip-hop videos. It was not meant as disrespect. I used to watch those videos and think, "Are these guys kidding?…

— Chris Cunningham

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

— Nikki Giovanni

Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna…

— Rakim

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms…

— Charlie Jane Anders

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want…

— Ice T

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make…

— Margaret Thatcher

If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey…

— Chuck D

I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a…

— Russell Simmons

I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as…

— MC Serch

You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican…

— Tod Goldberg

Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye…

— Will Ferrell

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

— Gene Weingarten

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

— Nelly

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

— Bakari Kitwana

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

— Josh Peck

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

— Steve Coogan

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

— Damon Albarn

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

— Vince Staples

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

— Doc Brown