Best Hip-Hop Wisdom

289 Hip-Hop quotes by 180 unique authors

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. — Tatiana Maslany
My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find… — Mike Mills
My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop… — Nicki Minaj
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop… — Moby
Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York. — Nas
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight. — Nas
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. — Nas
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. — Nas
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that… — Nas
I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're… — Nas
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. — Barack Obama
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues. — Sean Paul
I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn… — Katy Perry
I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. — Liz Phair
I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about… — Joaquin Phoenix
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art. — Questlove
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If… — Lou Reed
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform… — Busta Rhymes
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock… — Kid Rock
I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff. — Kid Rock
That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an… — Kid Rock
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was… — Jill Scott
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest… — Rob Sheffield
The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not… — Russell Simmons
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the… — Skrillex

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