Hops Quotes · Page 9

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

— Afrika Bambaataa

My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on…

— Jeri Ryan

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox…

— Saul Williams

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

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics…

— Mike Stud

I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it's like to be real and the social ills that…

— Killer Mike

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground…

— Boots Riley

I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given…

— Jay-Z

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

— Ice T

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects…

— Nick Cannon

I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds…

— Dani Shapiro

The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand,…

— Tim Finn

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

— Galcher Lustwerk

At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like…

— Jon Pareles

People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could…

— Ian MacKaye

I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I…

— Gary Clark, Jr

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status, and before I had a pager, You could find…

— Q-Tip

How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil'…

— Ed O.G

The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash…

— Reginald Hudlin

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

— Saul Williams

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

Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you,…

— DJ Shadow

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

— Saul Williams

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

— Tatiana Maslany

The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll. I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.

— Daniel Dumile

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me. Have you read the YouTube comments lately? ‘Man, that’s gay’ gets dropped…

— Macklemore

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that…

— Kristen Stewart

Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

— Miguel

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

— Travie McCoy

I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way…

— Greg Cipes

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

— Cornel West

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

— Kobe Bryant

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

— Questlove

I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership…

— Lil' Kim

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

— SonReal