Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around. — Snoop Dogg
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
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 supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change. — Doug E. Fresh
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
Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles. — Aloe Blacc
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 definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. — Missy Elliot
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
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. — Method Man
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
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
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. — Barack Obama
Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years. — Geraldo Rivera
Short Hip Hop Song Quotes
If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them. — KRS-One
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. — Ajay Naidu
Drop it like it's hot. — Snoop Dogg
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
It's all contractual and about money makin'. — Black Thought
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. — Eminem
I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same. — Drake
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love. — Drake
I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection — Tupac Shakur
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
Find the tribe that knows your song.
The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs because I've never had any desire to rap. My love of hip-hop is driven by my love of rappers, but it was built out of my love of producers. — James Vincent McMorrow
I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it. — Hoodie Allen
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships. — Mayer Hawthorne
Hip Hop Music Quotes
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'm just an addict, addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it. — Rakim
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
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
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
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as note, song, or walk become invaluable trasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
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
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 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
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
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
Those who wish to sing... always find a song.
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
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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
Everybody looking at you crazy,
What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep moving,
Or let the paranoia haunt you? — Kendrick Lamar
Hip Hop Artist Quotes
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
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 find pieces of you in every song I listen to .
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
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
We ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support — 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
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.
For every situation, there's a suitable line from a song
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
I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary;
Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary,
You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery. — Killer Mike
Rap 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.
Those who are heartless, once cared too much. — Frank Ocean
I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it — Macklemore
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
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
There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate. — Maajid Nawaz
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin. — Drake
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy. — Tupac Shakur
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
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
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
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain
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
Music just ain't what it used to;
We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to. — Jadakiss
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
She live in a mindset that I could never move to — Drake
But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam — Drake
I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes — Common
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man. — Kool Moe Dee
Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life — Drake
You were put here to protect us.
But who protects us from you? — KRS-One
I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end. — Drake
All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes. — Drake
We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before. — Drake
My life is like a song and I think I know the words,
And as I start to sing along the whole verse becomes a blur.
So I freestyle improv, make mistakes and evolve,
The obstacles repeat, cause naturally it revolves. — MURS
She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ass like a nominee. — Drake
I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest. — Drake
Word on road is the clique about to blow. You ain't gotta run and tell nobody they already know — Drake
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
I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads. — Drake
I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched. — Drake
I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other. — Afrojack
Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens. — Drake
There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'. — Nas
I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up — Drake
For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean — Tupac Shakur
I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff — Noel Gallagher
McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music. — Chuck D
You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature...
But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger! — Bushwick Bill
Some things look better inside of the store. — Drake
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