607 Hip-Hop Quotes for You to Enjoy

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop. Andra Day

Soul Try Jazz Musically Box Around Hip-Hop Just Influences Play Things Spectrum

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl. Andra Day

Girl Hip-Hop Southern Fan

Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac. Andre Iguodala

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I think I'm like the kid who loved hip hop, and all of a sudden - I don't know what it was - it started to put me in positions to do great things. Angie Martinez

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I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice. Ari Melber

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Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be. Ariel Rechtshaid

Seems More Never Had Boundaries Adventurous Hip-Hop Popular

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job. Astro

Job Big Know Hip-Hop Artist Going Just Want Next Save

Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting. Austin Carlile

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I think there are barriers, but I think for me specifically, my barrier is being rejected from the kind of hip-hop elitists that think I'm not appropriating it, but just not serious about it. They think I'm a Lonely Island, Weird Al, you know - like a parody rapper. So that alienates me from a lot of things. Awkwafina

As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward. B.o.B

In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning. Barry Jenkins

Saying You Cats Sometimes Slow Down Think Lyrics Emotion Miss Hip-Hop Yearning Gets Just Literally Pace Mean Fast Things

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one. Beck

You People Song Cause Lost Air About Put Like Know Hip-Hop Left Up Jump Hands Then Suddenly Play

When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job. Ben Horowitz

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.' Ben Horowitz

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I love 'Yoga With Adriene' videos on YouTube, cardio hip-hop, and kickboxing. Beth Behrs

Love Videos YouTube Kickboxing Hip-Hop Yoga Cardio

Everyone uses grime as a footstool, but imagine Biggie Smalls started doing hip hop, and it started going well, and then he started making RnB: there would be no hip hop! Big Narstie

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I love 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' because it's a real kids' show. There hasn't been a real kids' show since 'Dora the Explorer.' It mixes hip-hop with being a kid. Hip-hop came from youths anyway. It's just a great, funky show. Biz Markie

Love Great Kid Kids Since Because Hip-Hop Real Came Been Just Being Anyway Explorer Show Youths Funky

I really want to be the black Mr. Rogers - that's my goal. I would do everything the same but with a hip-hop feel to it. Biz Markie

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Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop. Bjork

Come Hip-Hop Iceland

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting. Bo Burnham

When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of cities passed ordinances that made it hard for black audiences to gather in large groups. Clubs are more open to hip-hop now 'cause it's the same crowd that goes to rock shows. Boots Riley

Cause Black Made Cities More Crowd Open Rock Audiences Passed Hip-Hop Doing Were Lot Same Goes Happened Clubs Hard Large Groups Large Groups Shows Now Gather

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that. Brandon Flowers

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I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world. Brandon T. Jackson

World Young Come Hip-Hop Urban

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