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289 Hip-Hop quotes by 180 unique authors

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever. — Chad Hugo
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia.… — Mayer Hawthorne
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. — Zaha Hadid
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as… — Gary Clark, Jr.
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It… — Etgar Keret
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. — Baz Luhrmann
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling. — Erykah Badu
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So… — John Legend
That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that.… — Ja Rule
I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop.… — Nickolas Ashford
There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually… — Curtis Jackson
You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man. — Curtis Jackson
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. — Mario Vazquez
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing… — Roshon Fegan
White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and… — Narada Michael Walden
I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by… — Yelawolf
Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy. — Yelawolf
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you… — Yelawolf
This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man. — Yelawolf
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. — Pitbull
I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was… — Ishmael
Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop.… — Jamie Foxx
It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just,… — Al Franken
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change. — Doug E. Fresh
I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with… — Doug E. Fresh

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