Hip Hop Quotations
Hip Hop Quotes from:
Afrika Bambaataa
Kool Keith
Ice T
Rap Quotes
It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy...
Hips Quotes
I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.
Rapper Quotes
I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.
Big Pun
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 don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
Crowds Quotes
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
Two Quotes
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
Disrespect Quotes
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.
Pooch Hall
I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
Tired Quotes
I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.
Voice Quotes
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
Russell Simmons
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
Media Quotes
I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.
Kris Humphries
Jobs Quotes
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
Kids Quotes
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.
Missy Elliot
Guitar Quotes
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
Gary Clark, Jr.
Red Quotes
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.
Firsts Quotes
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
White Quotes
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
Don Cornelius
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
Trying Quotes
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
Giving Quotes
November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
Questlove
Differences Quotes
I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.
Cnn Quotes
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
Ike Turner
Kings Quotes
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
Gimmicks Quotes
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
Awards Quotes
I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
Intelligent Quotes
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
Travie McCoy
Artist Quotes
Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
Rocks Quotes
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.
George Clinton
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.
The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.
Sharon Jones
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
Thinking Quotes
I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.
Soulja Boy
Forever Quotes
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.
Doug E. Fresh
The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community
Pieces Quotes
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
Ajay Naidu
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Style Quotes
Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.
Jake Shimabukuro
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
Bubba Sparxxx
At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
Obie Trice
Records Quotes
That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
Issues Quotes
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.
Danny Masterson
Believe Quotes
I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.
Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.
Two Chainz
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
Character Quotes
Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
Definitions Quotes
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
Different Quotes
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.
I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
Karrine Steffans
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.
Dream Quotes
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
Puff Daddy
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.
Ludacris
I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.
Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.
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.
Chris Lowe
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.
I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
Natalia Kills
I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.
In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.
I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
Listening Quotes
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.
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.