Gangsta Hip Hop Quotes

Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes ~ Kjiva

If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land. ~ Kjiva

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through. ~ Simon De Pury

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. ~ Jay-Z

To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture. ~ Lazarus Of Bethany

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5. ~ Yara Shahidi

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. ~ Baz Luhrmann

I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in. ~ Boots Riley

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash. ~ Afrika Bambaataa

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time. ~ Gold Panda

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps ~ Chuck D

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing? ~ Mos Def

Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere.
They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed,
Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough.
A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.'
I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow.
You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee;
Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!' ~ KRS-One

I'm not a sucka, so I don't need a bodyguard. ~ Rob Base

There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music. ~ Mos Def

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN. ~ Curtis Jackson

Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence. ~ Cormega

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

The N-word is certainly not a word that has, as many suggest, been kept alive solely by hip-hop and rap artists. White people have been keeping the word alive and well too. Any movie about slavery or black history could reasonably include the word a few times just to remind us of how terrible we all used to be, to remind us of the work we have yet to do. And still, the televised version of Roots manages to depict the realities of slavery without the N-word and the miniseries is nearly ten hours long. ~ Roxane Gay

What's more they are also some of the best-paid entertainers in history: Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, raked in U.S. $150 million in 2008 alone, placing him on top of Forbes's "Hip-Hop Cash Kings" list. ~ Peter Mcallister

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go.
Know your place, and dedicate your role
... To the faith that you'll die alone ~ Kendrick Lamar

With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more. ~ Lauryn Hill

I committed crimes of passion and my soul was suspected,
But it was thrown out of court because of course the Creator and I connected.
He told me, Fear not for thou art protected. Your life is being requested, ~ Cee Lo Green

We in the 25th hour,
It's now or never.
We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever.
In the end, time waits for no man ...
What's your plan? ~ Reks

Beef is not what Jay said to Nas;
Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs. ~ Mos Def

I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game,
To stimulate, then activate the left and right brain.
Said, 'Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut.
You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what.'
That's one to live by, or either that's one to die to. ~ Andre Benjamin

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!' ~ Sean Paul

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. ~ Nas

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop. ~ Vince Staples

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. ~ Darren Aronofsky

Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk ~ Jeru The Damaja

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. ~ Fab Five Freddy

I don't even know if hip-hop is music anymore. It's definitely rhythm. It's definitely tempo. It's definitely beats per minute. But it's product. And television is product placement for the most part. It's not passion. ~ CeeLo Green

Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood. ~ Jimmy Page

It was you that chose your due,
You built a maze you can't get through.
I tried to help you all I can,
Now I can't do nuttin' for you, man! ~ Flavor Flav

Comin' from the school of hard knocks,
Some perpetrate ... they drink Clorox.
Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox. ~ Chuck D

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. ~ J. Cole

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. ~ Lou Reed

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. ~ Greta Gerwig

Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art. ~ One9

I said it's all good and it's all in fun
Now get in the pit and try to love someone ~ Kid Rock

I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter ~ Kjiva

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music. ~ Neil Drumming

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