Top 1200 Hip Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.
I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.
Ghostface, when it comes to hip-hop, was one of my favorite rappers and definitely one of my favorites in the Wu-Tang. He's also a really cool dude.
It's hard being a woman in the hip-hop game, but I'm lucky to have good people around me who have had my back.
Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.
My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.
I'm born and raised in Georgia, so I have a lot of appreciation for hip-hop, but I want to be able to show the emotional side of me.
When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.
So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.
Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.
A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren't trendy anymore or weren't hip in gay clubs but you'd hear them at Taboo.
What I particularly liked about Nineties hip hop was it had a certain reverence for the groove that I hadn't been hearing in a while.
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is an attitude - even an aptitude.
In my childhood, I was very fond of western music and dance forms like Hip Hop, Salsa, Tango, etc.
The hip hop community is not at fault here - I'm definitely not blaming them. But, that can't be the only view of manhood for our young men.
If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.
Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.
I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.
I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.
Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.
A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.
I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.
The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
No one ever really talks about the punk-rock involvement in hip-hop, which influenced Afrika Bambaata.
I just don't think many people would have crossed the street to hear me doing a hip hop-influenced album!
The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That's all it's about.
Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit.
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest of humanity into the Age of Aquarius.
In future, if I get a chance to perform, I will go for hip hop, locking and popping. Indian is definitely not for me.
One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.
I'm not going to try to sell soul to the hip-hop generation unless I got some money behind me.
I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
I appreciate people who make hip-hop... the way A Tribe Called Quest and Lauryn Hill and KRS-One did it.
My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.
I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.
I listen to everything: hip hop, R&B, alternative, pop. I love JCole, so I'm always listening to him. Kendrick and Drake.
My music is quite diverse, but it blends Grime, Hip-Hop, Old Skool and other urban genres together.
There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.
Ultimately with our band, it's word of mouth. It seems to be the largest cause of The Hip outbreak - if we can align ourselves with a virus.
I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.
There are times when I'm on the athletics track when I can't control my movement or I'm not able to maintain my hip stability and I am wobbling all over the place.
I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.
I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].
I never really considered myself super hip-hop, ever in life. I don't think anything that I've done reflects that.
I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.
I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.
Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.
One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.
