608 Hip-Hop Quotes for You to Enjoy

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity. LL Cool J

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Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it. Laurieann Gibson

Everyone Also Another Loose Messy Hip-Hop Notion Level

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend! Lauryn Hill

Music Spiritual You Trend Blacks Also Call Hip-Hop Just Movement

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more. Lauryn Hill

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Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm. Lecrae

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My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music. Lecrae

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Before Lil B, hip-hop and music in general was in a different space. Lil B really just pushed this independence. Lil B

Music Space Independence Before General Pushed Hip-Hop Just Different Really

I feel like my place is to connect hip-hop... with the youth, the older, the middle. Just everybody that's listening to me. My place in hip-hop is really to just connect and show positivity. Put my vibe out there. Lil B

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I'm a fan of hip-hop as a whole, period. I love hip-hop. I look at it as a study and I love it. Lil B

Love Study Look Period Hip-Hop Fan Whole

I think for me, I get so much love that it balances or overpowers the hate. When I started making music, it was kind of flawless for me. I didn't get any hate early in my hip-hop career. Lil B

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One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other... I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters. Lil Mama

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I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I started to wonder where a lot of these samples came from. So I fell in love with Bobby Womack or Willie Hutch because I wanted to know where those samples came from. Lil Rel Howery

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B. Lil Uzi Vert

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Hip-hop is not one thing! Lil Yachty

One Thing Hip-Hop Thing

There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric. Lin-Manuel Miranda

Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop. Lindsey Vonn

Gym Hip-Hop Motivated Get Really

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop. Little Richard

I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic. Little Simz

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I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. Liz Phair

Myself Dance Mirror Songs Around Hip-Hop

I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.' Lizzo

Typical Like Hip-Hop

I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons. Lizzo

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There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing. But they can't go out and sell out tours, perform in front of 3,000 people a night, and things like that. We did things backwards; with Visionary, we got all the fans first. Logic

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