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I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt
Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out.
Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me
I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary. ~ Jayceon Terrell Taylor
Hip Hop quotes by Jayceon Terrell Taylor
I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat ~ Eminem
Hip Hop quotes by Eminem
Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.' ~ Kanye West
Hip Hop quotes by Kanye West
Oh am I late? No, I already graduated
And you can live through anything if Magic made it
They say I talk with so much emphasis
Ooh they so sensitive ~ Kanye West
Hip Hop quotes by Kanye West
My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lorraine Hansberry with "A Raisin in the Sun". Like Shakespeare when he does his thing, like deep stories, raw human needs.

I'm trying to think of a good analogy. It's like, you've got the Vietnam War, and because you had reporters showing us pictures of the war at home, that's what made the war end, or that shit would have lasted longer. If no one knew what was going on we would have thought they were just dying valiantly in some beautiful way. But because we saw the horror, that's what made us stop the war.

So I thought, that's what I'm going to do as an artist, as a rapper. I'm gonna show the most graphic details of what I see in my community and hopefully they'll stop it quick.

I've seen all of that-- the crack babies, what we had to go through, losing everything, being poor, and getting beat down. All of that. Being the person I am, I said no no no no. I'm changing this. ~ Tupac Shakur
Hip Hop quotes by Tupac Shakur
Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes ~ Kjiva
Hip Hop quotes by Kjiva
When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. ~ Emmanuel Jal
Hip Hop quotes by Emmanuel Jal
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. ~ Fab Five Freddy
Hip Hop quotes by Fab Five Freddy
After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise. ~ Danger Mouse
Hip Hop quotes by Danger Mouse
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. ~ Eminem
Hip Hop quotes by Eminem
Follow the loglo outward, to where the growth is enfolded into the valleys and the canyons, and you find the land of the refugees. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles; Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bungee jumping. They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture. ~ Neal Stephenson
Hip Hop quotes by Neal Stephenson
Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It's something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious. ~ Curtis Jackson
Hip Hop quotes by Curtis Jackson
Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca. ~ Raquel Cepeda
Hip Hop quotes by Raquel Cepeda
I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life. ~ Gina Rodriguez
Hip Hop quotes by Gina Rodriguez
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
Hip Hop quotes by Peter Mcallister
Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth.
Motherf
. I, will, not, lose. ~ Jay-Z
Hip Hop quotes by Jay-Z
I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am. ~ Gary Clark, Jr.
Hip Hop quotes by Gary Clark, Jr.
I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it. ~ Madlib
Hip Hop quotes by Madlib
My son is a hip-hop producer. ~ Quincy Jones
Hip Hop quotes by Quincy Jones
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown. ~ Talib Kweli
Hip Hop quotes by Talib Kweli
They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles; Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bungee jumping. ~ Neal Stephenson
Hip Hop quotes by Neal Stephenson
I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel that first-and-foremost I came up as a rapper before I started singing. All a lot of people know from me is 'Cupid's Chokehold,' and they don't scratch the surface and see beyond that dude who sings the song about his girlfriend. ~ Travie McCoy
Hip Hop quotes by Travie McCoy
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be. ~ Will.i.am
Hip Hop quotes by Will.i.am
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
Hip Hop quotes by Rob Sheffield
I never fronted, you can get it if you want it ...
Won't say I'm the best, but I'm not that far from it. ~ Lord Finesse
Hip Hop quotes by Lord Finesse
It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop. ~ Trip Lee
Hip Hop quotes by Trip Lee
A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants. ~ Grand Puba
Hip Hop quotes by Grand Puba
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
Hip Hop quotes by One9
'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing. ~ Bruno Mars
Hip Hop quotes by Bruno Mars
You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop. ~ KRS-One
Hip Hop quotes by KRS-One
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
Hip Hop quotes by Beck
Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again ~ Ahmad
Hip Hop quotes by Ahmad
Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized. ~ Jimmy Heath
Hip Hop quotes by Jimmy Heath
As millions use social media as a primary source of information, the risk of falling victim to being misinformed is high. Readers who quickly scan newsfeeds tend to only read (and share information about) a headline: focusing on "the hook." Whether due to complacency or lack of time, few explore the content. This allows bogus media outlets to descend on the unsuspecting (and unprepared) seekers of instant information, creating false stories with dazzling one-liners, secure in the knowledge that there will be little effort to pursue confirmation or research an entire story. ~ Carlos Wallace
Hip Hop quotes by Carlos Wallace
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. ~ Nas
Hip Hop quotes by Nas
Birfdays was the worst days,
Now we sip champagne when we thirstay uh ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Hip Hop quotes by The Notorious B.I.G.
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall. ~ Jaron Lanier
Hip Hop quotes by Jaron Lanier
You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things. ~ Stanley Nelson Jr.
Hip Hop quotes by Stanley Nelson Jr.
I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day. ~ Lupe Fiasco
Hip Hop quotes by Lupe Fiasco
I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same. ~ Drake
Hip Hop quotes by Drake
If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical. ~ Alexis Knapp
Hip Hop quotes by Alexis Knapp
I am not great in a crowd. I don't see a lot of rock shows because sometimes I am afraid I won't get out. I used to squeeze my little self into the scrum and jump around and cause tiny trouble. Now I just want to sit down and have someone perform my five favorite songs while I eat a light dinner and receive a simultaneous pedicure. Is there some kind of awesome indie/alt/hip-hop/electronica music tour that can do that? ~ Amy Poehler
Hip Hop quotes by Amy Poehler
I cannot stand no wack MC.
So step back if you please,
And don't test me, you're history. ~ Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Hip Hop quotes by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it. ~ Queen Latifah
Hip Hop quotes by Queen Latifah
Nuthin' can avoid this shot 'cause it's hittin'
It's so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten ~ Eazy-E
Hip Hop quotes by Eazy-E
You ain't as hard as you act.
When I GPS 'pussy,' I end up at your welcome mat ... ~ Vakill
Hip Hop quotes by Vakill
When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane ...
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!' ~ Big Daddy Kane
Hip Hop quotes by Big Daddy Kane
If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation. ~ Michael Eric Dyson
Hip Hop quotes by Michael Eric Dyson
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing. ~ Steve Coogan
Hip Hop quotes by Steve Coogan
It started back in '79,
My whole darn future was on the line.
I created a brand new sensation
Through my mind and the whole darn nation ... ~ Sylvia Robinson
Hip Hop quotes by Sylvia Robinson
What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists. ~ Jack Antonoff
Hip Hop quotes by Jack Antonoff
I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today. ~ Wyclef Jean
Hip Hop quotes by Wyclef Jean
I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them. ~ Galcher Lustwerk
Hip Hop quotes by Galcher Lustwerk
My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own. ~ Black Thought
Hip Hop quotes by Black Thought
Who that man in the black Sedan
With two cheap hookers and a Mexican
Pumpin' white lines, sippin' warm Coors Light
Mickey Avalon, call me Mr. Right ~ Mickey Avalon
Hip Hop quotes by Mickey Avalon
Male groupies gettin' shaky when I come from the rear. ~ Redman
Hip Hop quotes by Redman
According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard! ~ Felipe Esparza
Hip Hop quotes by Felipe Esparza
The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited. ~ Ice Cube
Hip Hop quotes by Ice Cube
The colder the weather, the bigger the gun
Got to rock a lot of clothes if you tryina hide one
In June it's .22's, February it's fifths
But all year round, it's 616. ~ Willie The Kid
Hip Hop quotes by Willie The Kid
Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents. ~ B.J. The Chicago Kid
Hip Hop quotes by B.J. The Chicago Kid
People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop. ~ Doug E. Fresh
Hip Hop quotes by Doug E. Fresh
Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype
I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic ~ MC Hammer
Hip Hop quotes by MC Hammer
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three. ~ John Legend
Hip Hop quotes by John Legend
'You claim to be the man, you want me for a lover,
So you can do my girlfriends and my sister and my mother?'
I said, 'You're very blunt,' with quickness to the cue,
'So whassup with your mother, does she look as good as you?' ~ Dres
Hip Hop quotes by Dres
Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp,
Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp,
Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll,
Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy.
On the microphone:
I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast. ~ Kool Keith
Hip Hop quotes by Kool Keith
Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age. ~ Ryan Lewis
Hip Hop quotes by Ryan Lewis
Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost, ~ Nas
Hip Hop quotes by Nas
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
Hip Hop quotes by Cormega
There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing
If my burglar alarm starts ringing ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Hip Hop quotes by The Notorious B.I.G.
No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate,
as the great will dominate straight to the state
Of reignin', gainin' ... So put Kane in
That category. Period. End of story. ~ Big Daddy Kane
Hip Hop quotes by Big Daddy Kane
The truth is easier when you leavin' it out.
Like when you "5 minutes away" but you're just leavin your house? ~ William Wordsworth
Hip Hop quotes by William Wordsworth
Niggas tried to holla, but couldn't holla back
Now they gots to swallow, everything in the sack. ~ DMX
Hip Hop quotes by DMX
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
Hip Hop quotes by Rakim
Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it ~ Jay-Z
Hip Hop quotes by Jay-Z
Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney. ~ Phife Dawg
Hip Hop quotes by Phife Dawg
Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror,
Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer.
The truth is that you ugly ...
Not on the outside, but in the inside;
On the outside, you frontin' you lovely. ~ Pharoahe Monch
Hip Hop quotes by Pharoahe Monch
God sent me to piss the world off! ~ Eminem
Hip Hop quotes by Eminem
I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands. ~ Britney Spears
Hip Hop quotes by Britney Spears
I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role,
But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old. ~ Big Daddy Kane
Hip Hop quotes by Big Daddy Kane
Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma.
Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama. ~ Cormega
Hip Hop quotes by Cormega
Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop. ~ Q-Tip
Hip Hop quotes by Q-Tip
I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music. ~ Mayer Hawthorne
Hip Hop quotes by Mayer Hawthorne
Hip Hop Generation "captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as "post-this" or "post-that." ~ Jeff Chain
Hip Hop quotes by Jeff Chain
Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us. ~ Thomas Bangalter
Hip Hop quotes by Thomas Bangalter
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. ~ Cat Power
Hip Hop quotes by Cat Power
Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course,
Porsche with the triple exhaust,
Seats soft like a midget's cough ... ~ Action Bronson
Hip Hop quotes by Action Bronson
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves. ~ Saul Williams
Hip Hop quotes by Saul Williams
DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing ... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us. ~ Nas
Hip Hop quotes by Nas
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
Hip Hop quotes by Rick Rubin
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it. ~ Dan Auerbach
Hip Hop quotes by Dan Auerbach
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. ~ B.B. King
Hip Hop quotes by B.B. King
A fast note about Ice-T's autobiography: There's a section where he tells a story about hanging out with Flavor Flav that involves going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari. I suspect the phrase "going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari" is the most accurate description of Flavor Flav anyone will ever come up with. ~ Shea Serrano
Hip Hop quotes by Shea Serrano
The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th,
The New World Order was born on September 11. ~ Immortal Technique
Hip Hop quotes by Immortal Technique
30058 is the ZIP Code I grew up in in Atlanta, so the music represents where I'm from, and the mindset of '30058.' It's got a touch of reggae and a hip-hop feel. It's soothing, I think. ~ Shameik Moore
Hip Hop quotes by Shameik Moore
I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife. ~ Chris Paul
Hip Hop quotes by Chris Paul
Real slow hits from the bong ...
Make me feel like Cheech,
And I'm kickin' it with Chong. ~ B-Real
Hip Hop quotes by B-Real
Blue jeans, white shirt
Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn
It was like, James Dean, for sure
You're so fresh to death and sick as ca-cancer
You were sorta punk rock, I grew up on hip hop
But you fit me better than my favourite sweater, and I know
That love is mean, and love hurts
But I still remember that day we met in december, oh baby!

I will love you 'til the end of time
I would wait a million years
Promise you'll remember that you're mine
Baby can you see through the tears
Love you more
Than those bitches before
Say you'll remember, oh baby, say you'll remember
I will love you 'til the end of time

Big dreams, gangster
Said you had to leave to start your life over
I was like, "No please, stay here,
We don't need no money we can make it all work,"
But he headed out on sunday, said he'd come home monday
I stayed up waitin', anticipatin', and pacin'
But he was chasing paper
"Caught up in the game" ‒ that was the last I heard

I will love you 'til the end of time
I would wait a million years
Promise you'll remember that you're mine
Baby can you see through the tears
Love you more
Than those bitches before
Say you'll remember, oh baby, say you'll remember
I will love you 'til the end of time

You went out every night
And baby that's alright
I told you that no matter what y ~ Lana Del Rey
Hip Hop quotes by Lana Del Rey
You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you ~ C. Delores Tucker
Hip Hop quotes by C. Delores Tucker
Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live ~ KRS-One
Hip Hop quotes by KRS-One
After you back it up, then stop;
Then wha-wha-what, drop drop it like it's hot! ~ Juvenile
Hip Hop quotes by Juvenile
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