Top 1200 Hop Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I used to do this one club called New York Sound Factory where I played house, hip-hop, and dancehall. I was one of the first DJs in the South to play everything.
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.
We Can't Stop' was the first song we did. We didn't try to reach and be too 'hood:' It's hip-hop-influenced, but Miley's a pop singer, and she's going to have country in there.
People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.
I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.
My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.
I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.
My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.
I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a different place, and what you're doing is experimental. Nobody's been there in hip-hop.'
I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.
I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.
I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.
I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.
I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.
I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.
I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to have to accept me or just not be a fan, I guess.
Until black culture as a whole is effectively disentangled from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension the street, we are not going to see any real progress.
You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.
I think if anyone looks at the history of So Solid, you'll see that we've never stuck to one sound. We've always created from other genres, from R&B, hip-hop, bashment, jungle.
Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.
Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.
I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay.
I've been listening to Herbie Hancock forever. He's gone through so many transitions, even before bringing hip-hop to the forefront with 'Rockit' and everything.
People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.
Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
At heart I'm a hip-hop kid and an R&B kid, but I've always had an appreciation for club culture and dance music.
The thing I love about hip-hop is that it's so creative. It's so creatively rewarding. When you hit it, and you hit it big, there are no words.
I'm not sure you can lindy hop to 'We're All In This Together,' but I'm sure the nuns would welcome Zac Efron round for tea!
People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.
Every artist can actually say that, that the overseas community appreciates the culture of hip-hop more, really, rather than over here. So it's fun to perform there.
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and it was quite personal.
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.
I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.
I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.
I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.
I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It's a tough grind that you have to go through that people don't understand.
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.
I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!
Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.
I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.
To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.
