Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I've always been able to write rhymes and that would be like when you consult with your girl. When I'm mad and… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money,… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good.… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new… — Del tha Funkee Homosapien Copy Share Image
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform. — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Whether or not I can get an interview from hip-hop media, that's not going to effect whether or not I can go… — Le1f Copy Share Image
The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is,… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive. — Angel Haze Copy Share Image
Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
