Best Hip-Hop Sayings
289 Hip-Hop quotes by 180 unique authors
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Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.
— Nelly
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make…
— J. Cole
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or…
— J. Cole
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The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
— Matisyahu
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Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop…
— Bo Burnham
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Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.
— Lindsey Vonn
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I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
— Natalia Kills
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I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's…
— Brian McKnight
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into…
— Ice T
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I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.
— Method Man
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I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.
— Josh Peck
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Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
— Derek Luke
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I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.
— Derek Luke
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Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
— Cat Power
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I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.
— Joaquin Phoenix
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I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as…
— Michael Rapaport
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I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop…
— Michael Rapaport
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Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
— Michael Rapaport
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So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five…
— Michael Rapaport
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The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York…
— Michael Rapaport
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
— Karrine Steffans
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I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music…
— David Sanborn
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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top…
— Ike Turner
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That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm…
— Alan Vega
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I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard…
— Alan Vega
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