Top 1200 Hip-Hop Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.
When I started forming my own taste, there was a period in high school when I listened to only rap and hip-hop, like A Tribe Called Quest.
I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'
Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.
After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.
Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.
The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.
Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.
I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently.
I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.
I am learning how to dance hip-hop. I'm a good dancer when I dance salsa.
In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.
To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.
Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it.
I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
I love having my son in my life. That's why it's more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did.
I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.
It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
I like hip-hop, I like a lot of dance music. If it's got drums in it.
Some of the greatest hip-hop artists have incorporated elements from electronic shows into their setup. People are taking notice. It's going to be a new wave.
We always do kinda like the bare bones representation or variation of the voice and drums, which is what we feel is the foundation or backbone of rapping and hip hop.
Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.
My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.
There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money.
Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.
Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.
I was a big hip hop girl, and still am, I listened to artists like Wu Tang, and K'Naan, but I was a particular fan of Biggie and Tupac.
I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.
I saw the EDM world and wanted to be in that more than the hip-hop world.
A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.
The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.
Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.
I like Maroon 5 and Andy Grammer, but I also like hip-hop a lot.
There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"
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 and blues and hip-hop.
I listen to a lot of Eighties hip-hop. I listened to a lot of Ice-T.
We grew up on hip-hop, metal, and hard core, which... reflect a certain amount of the chaos and confusion that are part of daily life.
I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.
So when I'm listening to music, I'm listening to a lot of hip-hop to be inspired and to hear new things.
I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.
I always say that I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm definitely a Drake fan.
