Hip Quotes
797 Hip quotes by 503 unique authors
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
— Unknown Author
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was…
— J. B. Smoove
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A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
— Travie McCoy
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With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting…
— Phil Anselmo
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you wear…
— Steve Stoute
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Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane…
— Eminem
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Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
— Common
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I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I…
— Tessa Thompson
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One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.
— Common
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Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if…
— Dean Wareham
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Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.
— Big Sean
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I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.
— Heavy D
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I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy,…
— Estelle
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When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.
— Estelle
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Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
— Kat Dahlia
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I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.
— Coolio
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I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.
— Joe Cocker
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I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.
— Seinabo Sey
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I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.
— Tracy Morgan
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
— G-Eazy
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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
— Diplo
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The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
— Meat Loaf
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I love the hip-hop nation.
— Pam Grier
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I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
— Coolio
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