Hops Quotes · Page 5

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even…

— SonReal

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not…

— Curtis Jackson

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some…

— George Clinton

Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society…

— Bakari Kitwana

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

— Nelly

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog…

— Stephenie Meyer

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

— Corbin Bleu

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

— Randy Savage

I think every generation has that movement of hip-hop that you know you're playing it and you definitely have that moment of…

— Solange Knowles

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

— KRS-One

I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I…

— Galcher Lustwerk

Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible…

— One9

Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

— El-P

Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and…

— Heather Headley

Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think…

— Conor Oberst

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore…

— Ice T

I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing.

— Kyle Massey

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

— Sho Baraka

It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big…

— Talib Kweli

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

— MC Serch

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 is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

— Eminem

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

— Anonymous

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad