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Hip Hop Quotes by Common
- Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized,…
- When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is…
- Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.
- I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics
- I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums
- I sit and think with a drink about how I'm gonna win...
- Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
- One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.
More Hip Hop Quotes
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- The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. — Afrika Bambaataa
- We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand… — Afrika Bambaataa
- Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in… — Andre Benjamin
- By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but… — Mary J. Blige
- The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. — Kurtis Blow