But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with… — Giuseppe Zanotti Copy Share Image
Future's the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there's a pack of beats… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. As far as my… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Nas is someone who can communicate with the streets and can still keep it real in terms of being human, he doesn't… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the… — Quavo Copy Share Image
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses...… — SonReal Copy Share Image
I'm not an aspiring rapper, I'm not a gang member, I'm not a dope dealer, I don't have multiple babies momma's. I… — Christopher Dorner Copy Share Image
Lil Wayne, I ain't mad at him man, he did his thing, he stepped up his lyrical game, he the most improved… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
“If an artist constructs profanity in rap music with the use of his or her own creative lyrics, it should inform or… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is substance. It's social. It's science - that's what it started off as. We have fun, and we still having fun;… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing.… — Logic Copy Share Image
Yeah man, I was ready to take it to hip-hop ... We could put the sh*t on wax, man. And that coulda… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
You already past 21 and you still talking about "I'ma be a rapper." You ain't did one show, niggas ain't seen you… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever,… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but… — Steven Sater Copy Share Image
My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something,… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
Whether you like Kanye or not, there has been a character assassination against this guy. You don't have to agree with everything… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
I do have a desire to bring a spiritual tone to the hip-hop community, which may force me to open a facility… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and… — Drake Copy Share Image
Music is my life, and I love it so much, I love everythin I do too. I work very hard to be… — Juan Rimas Copy Share Image
My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the… — Miri Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
It was dope to the point where I felt like Common almost admired me as much as I admired him. He took… — Dreezy Copy Share Image
When Nicki was putting out mixtapes, she was the only female rapper that had any kind of buzz. And not to mention… — Tink Copy Share Image
If you actually understand and listen to what he's saying, there's no one that can compete with Eminem. That's why no one… — Jamal Murray Copy Share Image
I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like,… — Tony Rock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I like Lil Wayne's style. His style probably influences me the most. Basically, he's just wearing exactly what he feels like wearing.… — Von Miller Copy Share Image
The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
L.A. hip-hop is so different; it's so diverse. Out here, it's, like, funk-inspired; it's, like, '70s-skating-rink-inspired at times. It's Zapp-and-Roger-inspired; it's house-party-era-inspired. — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
To be honest, and this comes out of left field, but I would love to do something with Jay-Z or Eminem. I… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
![“Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10 to 12 hours a day. [Kanye] loves learning about shoes, both the design and construction, and we’ve tried to design something together. In a couple of months, he could…” quote by Giuseppe Zanotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/395/giuseppe-zanotti-47764_collections_kanye-is-always-here-in-my-factory-in-th_897935.jpg)
![“Yeah man, I was ready to take it to hip-hop ... We could put the sh*t on wax, man. And that coulda - But hey, I ain't got nothing against Fabolous. Fabolous [is] the homie. He was just joking around... Shouts out to Fabolous. We fin to do a song [together] real soon.” quote by Soulja Boy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e50/soulja-boy-4095_joking-around_yeah-man-i-was-ready-to-take-it-to-hip-h_2433088.jpg)
