Best Hip-Hop Qoutes
289 Hip-Hop quotes by 180 unique authors
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I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music…
— Michael Franti
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I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.
— Gina Rodriguez
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I went to college at NYU for acting, since acting was my dream from very young. I did a lot of hip-hop courses while I…
— Gina Rodriguez
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Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it…
— Kreayshawn
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I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as…
— Joey Fatone
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Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.
— Ariel Rechtshaid
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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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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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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 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 was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
— Diplo
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I love the hip-hop nation.
— Pam Grier
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I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
— Axl Rose
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The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.
— Ludacris
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