Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around. — Snoop Dogg
Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles. — Aloe Blacc
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. — Missy Elliot
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. — Afrika Bambaataa
Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now.
It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now. — Eminem
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change. — Doug E. Fresh
Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years. — Geraldo Rivera
Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids. — Vince Staples
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain
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. — Talib Kweli
Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live — KRS-One
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on. — Prince
If you’re from the hood and you black, you’re going to have some type of music in your life. — 21 Savage
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. — Ajay Naidu
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. — Andre Benjamin
Short Hip Hop Music Quotes
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. — Method Man
If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them. — KRS-One
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. — Eminem
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
It's all contractual and about money makin'. — Black Thought
Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres. — Avicii
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. — Zubin Mehta
Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are — Tom DeLonge
Only sick music makes money today. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Top 10 Hip Hop Music Quotes
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop. — Phife Dawg
I'm just an addict, addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it. — Rakim
I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me. — LeCrae
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot. — Jackie Collins
I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk. — Rick Rubin
A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel. — LeCrae
When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. — 50 Cent
Music just ain't what it used to;
We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to. — Jadakiss
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. — G-Eazy
Hip Hop Music Image Quotes
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Inspirational Hip Hop Music Quotes
A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support — Talib Kweli
A lot of times when people listen to music it's because they feel down, and that's when serious hip-hop comes into play. When times is hard, people can hear a rapper that inspires them to do what they [are] supposed to do. — Rakim
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
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
I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop. — Hoodie Allen
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you. — Chadwick Boseman
The earth has music for those who listen.
I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. — Nicki Minaj
Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own. — Mayer Hawthorne
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration. — Talib Kweli
I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music. — Simon de Pury
Hip Hop Music Artists Quotes
I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering. — Brother Ali
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. — Roy Ayers
When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste. — ASAP Rocky
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community. — Jay-Z
Apple has the radio stations, so I go R&B in the morning, and then I'll go with some hip-hop before the game. But after the game, it's more meditation music. It's not artists; it's more whatever is being played. — Jason Kidd
Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because we both are communicating a message, just in different ways. Hip-hop artists talk, we sing. They rap forcefully, we sing gracefully. — Amadou Bagayoko
Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.
A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna. — Sisqo
If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do, like musically and stylistic-wise that I can write, but I don't really have an avenue to show it 'cause most of the things I'm writing are in Hip Hop. — PJ Harvey
For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. — Steve Purdy
It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music. — Caroline Polachek
Hip Hop Quotes
Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever. — Nas
What you base your happiness around?
Material, women, and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major. — Nas
If the truth is told, the youth can grow
Then learn to survive until they gain control
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes
Read more learn more, change the globe — Nas
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists. — Kendrick Lamar
And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest. — Kendrick Lamar
I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now,
If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down. — J. Cole
Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. — Rick Ross
Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you. — Phife Dawg
So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never,
Because the dance with the devil might last you forever. — Immortal Technique
Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on. — Rick Ross
Hip-hop Quotes
Bikinis, zucchinis, martinis
No weenies. — Snoop Dogg
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation. — Phife Dawg
You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money... — Nas
People are like Music, some speak the truth and other are just noise
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. — Phife Dawg
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. — Unknown Author
We could fight the fuss till we get like friends,
Or somebody bite the dust and we split like ends.
Even in our wildest moments, girl, I'm on it cause you're worth it.
Practice makes perfect, so we fightin' for a purpose. — ASAP Rocky
Music is the emotional life of most people.
Hip is to know, it's a form of intelligence. To be hip is to be update and relevant. Hop is a form of movement, you can't just observe a hop, you gotta hop up and do it. Hip and hop is more than music
Hip is the Knowledge, hop is the Movement. Hip and Hop is Intelligent movement — KRS-One
I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard. — Tupac Shakur
Some seek fame cause they need validation,
Some say hating is confused admiration. — Nas
If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers... — Nas
Hip Hop Song Quotes
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. — KRS-One
Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away. — T.I.
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long! — Kendrick Lamar
One good thing about music. When it hits you, you feel no pain.
You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me. — Too $hort
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin. — Drake
But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam — Drake
She live in a mindset that I could never move to — Drake
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song. — Deborah Cox
I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes — Common
Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs,
100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on. — Jadakiss
Hip Hop Artist Quotes
The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to. — Kendrick Lamar
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind. — Afrika Bambaataa
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. — Afrika Bambaataa
Without music, life would be a mistake.
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
I get physical, mystical, very artistical...
Giving party people something funky to listen to. — Big Daddy Kane
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts. — Michael Eric Dyson
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride? — Talib Kweli
Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new. — Nas
I'm caught up in the system where the blind lead the blind
And this artist only speaks on the Signs of the Time.
And I pop pills in Purple Rain to state my pain,
They say I'm just like my father, bold and too cold. — Beanie Sigel
I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it`s like to be real and the social ills that we face, if you aren`t backing Bernie Sanders, I have to question your credibility in terms of do you mean the songs you`re writing. — Killer Mike
Hiphop Quotes
I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. — Slick Rick
My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that. — Questlove
I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial. — Slick Rick
Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow. — Slick Rick
Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop. — Questlove
Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence. — Slick Rick
There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect. — Slick Rick
Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. — Ryan Phillippe
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate. — Talib Kweli
What I did was go into the studio and make music that I love. Make music that when you hear it, it feels good. Whether it was urban inspired, dance inspired, HipHop inspired or it just feels good period. — Kelly Rowland
Hip Hop Love Quotes
Surround yourself with love, not friends. — Lil Wayne
I love black thighs, you sisters better realize That real hair and real eyes get real guys. So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind. — Common
They love the fact you made it, but hate the fact you got it.
The stairway to heaven is packed...I'm in the lobby.
Too scared to go to sleep, cause most times I often doubt my dreams. — Big K.R.I.T.
Anything worth having is hard to keep,
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. — Ghostface Killah
A day to God is a thousand years,
Men walk around with a thousand fears.
The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares. — RZA
I met this girl when I was ten years old,
And what I loved most she had so much soul.
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me. — Common
Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters,
Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better. — Sean Price
I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop. — Rakim
Let's test the waters...
Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip. — Pusha T
Rap Music Quotes
I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time. — Chance the Rapper
Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world. — Chance the Rapper
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life. — Young Thug
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. — Jasper Fforde
That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles. — Dave Koz
Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend. — Lyor Cohen
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. — Bobby Vinton
I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up — Michael Phelps
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. — Bruce Dickinson
I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do. — Ice Cube
Gangsta Rap Quotes
Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes. — Tupac Shakur
Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns. — Sean Price
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands. — Shane West
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. — Alan Vega
I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me. — Tupac Shakur
I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave,
to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay — DJ Quik
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won't come from conscious rap. — Bocafloja
Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. — Freddie Gibbs
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. — Jackson Katz
Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta! — Willie D
When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing. — KRS-One
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics. — Michael Eric Dyson
It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching me about records. I always thought vinyl was just intriguing. A black piece of wax that spins on a turntable and nothing but good sound comes from it. So that inspiration just keeps me going in hip-hop. — Pete Rock
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles. — Michael Rapaport
I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams. — Chris Ofili
It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall. — Ashley Kahn
I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving. — Misty Copeland
My feet might fail me, my heart might ail me,
The synagogues of Satan might accuse or jail me,
Strip, crown, nail me, brimstone hail me...
They might defeat the flesh but they could never ever kill me.
They might feel the music but could never ever feel me. — Jay Electronica
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
If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it. — Nipsey Hussle
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. — John Cena
HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS)... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN. — Afrika Bambaataa
There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister. — Saul Williams
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst. — Rob Sheffield
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
Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice. — LeCrae
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. — Eminem
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. — Alan Vega
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
We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks. ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix. — RZA
Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on. — Tupac Shakur
Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music. — Nas
Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like. — Rapsody
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. — Talib Kweli
With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop. — Travis Barker
Put this in your CD-ROM: www dot Canibus dot com. You can find me on the Internet, talkin' to chicks That was sweatin' me off the 'Music Makes Me High' remix. I be talkin' mad trash, tryin to get 'em to laugh. See, if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass. — Canibus
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. — Carrie Brownstein
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