Hip hop Quote by Common Download Open image “I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics” — Common ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hip hop Hips Hops Obama Politics Politics Rap Rapper
Barack Obama embraced hip-hop, man. That's the way he got through to kids. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tell you this once, hip hop is not dead. Change gon come just like Barack said. — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and a critique… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
Raised by game where niggas ain't phased by fame. Come to the crib, get banged, they take your chain. — Common Copy Share Image
He demeanor of the Ghetto, to never stay settled. Aldermen and corrupt men play Pharaoh. — Common Copy Share Image
I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind. — Common Copy Share Image
This is street radio, for unsung heroes. Riding in they regal, trying to stay legal. — Common Copy Share Image
Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow… — Common Copy Share Image
I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it… — Common Copy Share Image
Every song you make Joe is really hoe music. I heard you said you wasn't a bitch because you sing. You a bitch because… — Common Copy Share Image
I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you… — Common Copy Share Image
Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that -… — Common Copy Share Image
The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing.… — Common Copy Share Image
God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge… — Common Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
Couples Therapy' is pretty big for me because it's opening the door to a new audience - a hip-hop following, which I feel is… — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the… — El-P Copy Share Image
