Hip-Hop Quotes

I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.' M.I.A.
Music Good Great Me You People Song Made Big Difficult Say Hop Would Find People Say Record Allen Like Make Lily Understand Hip Hip-Hop Been Want Really Should Aw Why Thing Numbers
It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist. DJ Premier
Music Me People Whatever Everybody Dre Beats Like Beyond Makes Hip-Hop Just Who
People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying. Tee Grizzley
People Think Lying Obsessed Because Hip-Hop Real Being Want Being Real
Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and the fight to have equality and things be better. DJ Premier
Struggle Fight Equality Better Language Jazz Out Borne Hip-Hop Came Times Just Different Different Language Hard Hard Times Things Streets
Bounce is a primarily call-and-response style of hip-hop over a 'Trigger Man' beat. It's a New Orleans-created hip-hop style that developed in the late '80s, early '90s. Big Freedia
Man Style Late Trigger Beat Developed Primarily Bounce Over New Hip-Hop Early
I have rings of many different sizes and designs, mainly hip-hop, and an extensive bracelet collection. Bappi Lahiri
Collection Rings Mainly Hip-Hop Bracelet Different Sizes Many Extensive Designs
Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time. Queen Latifah
Time Me Group Every Other Lyrics Top Kid Hood Locking Record Records Had Put Over Hottest New Over-The-Top Track Rock Hip-Hop New Jersey York New York Breaking Them Planet Popping Jersey Street Two Numbers
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. DJ Premier
Listening Before Gone Everything Through He Forefront Hip-Hop Been Forever Transitions Many Even Bringing
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years. Questlove
Losing Circle Three Those Give Winners Instant Instant Gratification Hip-Hop Losers Years Up Five Often After Who Gratification Four
Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere. Taboo
Everywhere Hip-Hop Huge Australia Canada
I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk. Gopi Sundar
Work Music I Can Folk Classical Genres Hip-Hop Traditional Western Across
Everything really came together on ‘1992.' That isn't to dismiss my earlier works - they were great - but when I focused myself on hip-hop everything just clicked. Princess Nokia
Myself Great Together Everything Focused Clicked Hip-Hop Came Were Just Really Dismiss Works Earlier
Start dancing immediately. Run to the closest dance studio, and study the style of dance of the music you love. If you love hip-hop music, go to a hip-hop class. If you love salsa, take a salsa class. It will become infectious and you'll keep going back. Toni Basil
Love Music You Class Dance Will Style Become Back Dancing Immediately Run Take Studio Study Hip-Hop Go Infectious Closest Going Keep Keep Going Start
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. Lil Jon
First Club Everything Factory New House DJs Sound Hip-Hop South York New York Where Used Play Played
I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I still have a lot of love for hip-hop, so I want to do more collaborations in that sense. Rag'n'Bone Man
Love Build Sit Sense Collaborations More Write Piano Songs Around Hip-Hop Still Lot Up Want Wanted Ground
I'm not gonna force something or fake something to try to get more black people at my shows. I'm not gonna do some big hip-hop crossover. Rhiannon Giddens
People Try Black Big Some Something Crossover More Force Fake Hip-Hop Get Gonna Shows
Oh, my dad listens to a lot of 2Pac, Ice Cube and WC. That's what he was listening to a lot when we were growing up. He's always been a fan of hip-hop. Lonzo Ball
Listening He Cube Always Hip-Hop Were Been Lot Up Oh Listens Fan Ice Ice Cube Dad Growing Growing Up
We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no longer just an American thing, either. It's a universal thing. Taboo
Mirror Direct Longer Audience How Hip-Hop American Just Either Urban Shows Thing Universal
You gotta understand a lot of hip-hop kids are going to have the hip-hop mentality. And it's sad because they're not educated enough to understand what hip-hop culture is really about. Taboo
Sad You Culture Enough Kids About Mentality Because Understand Gotta Hip-Hop Educated Lot Going Really
My experience is that white kids love hip-hop, and brown and black kids love rock music. That shows that brown kids - they carry emotion, they carry pain, they carry oppression and strife. Princess Nokia
Love Music Experience Oppression Black White Pain Strife Kids Carry Brown Emotion Rock Hip-Hop Rock Music Shows
I believe samurai in the Edo period and modern hip-hop artists have something in common. Rappers open the way to their future with one microphone; samurai decided their fate with one sword. Shinichiro Watanabe
Future Fate Believe Way I Believe Rappers Something Open Period Hip-Hop Microphone Modern Artists Common Decided Samurai Sword
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. Cam'ron
Life Love Son My Life Community Fatherless Fathers I Love Having More Through Like Because Hip-Hop Did Childhood Why
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. No I.D.
Definitely Favorite Favorites Rappers He Also Hip-Hop Dude Really Cool
You know, my era of DJing was the 90s. I think that was one of the best eras of music, period. From dancehall to hip hop to rock to pop to R&B to everything. I just like that era of music, so I just listen to a lot of 90s overall but definitely 90s hip hop. Lil Jon
Music Best You Think Everything I Think Definitely Hop Like Overall Know Period Rock Hip Hip-Hop Era Eras Lot Listen Just Pop
Hip hop minus plugged sounds can be a very different experience. Badshah
Experience Hop Minus Hip Hip-Hop Sounds Very Different
My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine. Lil' Kim
Love Hop Female Genuine Always Hip Hip-Hop Been Movement
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