Hiphop Quotes

Yeah, I do. HipHop was, though I would not say all, cause I try to keep myself open to other things, but nearly all I listend to for the last 14 years of my life. ~ DJ Shadow

I got that money on my mind but I ain't blind. I see that if I want it, I have to grind. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence. ~ Slick Rick

Get Smart or Die Trying ~ Trizzmatic

I think hiphop is a beautiful thing and I embody it and I'm going to live it and I'm going to represent it until the day I leave this earth, because I represent everything positive about hiphop. ~ Jon Connor

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect. ~ Slick Rick

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

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 know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it wasn't for hiphop they'd still be living in that. So when I think of hiphop, I think hiphop saves lifes, hiphop changes lives. ~ Jon Connor

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

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

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. ~ Slick Rick

Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes the soul feel good to hear out angry young black men, can be transmuted into changing the world is narcotic but nonsensical. Wherever hiphop is ever "going," we can be sure it will not be in a constructive direction, anymore than fashions in the color of cars. And it shouldn't "concern" us in the least. ~ John H. McWhorter

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial. ~ Slick Rick

My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop. ~ Questlove

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. ~ Tupac Shakur

ET the Hiphop Preacher and Greg Plitt ~ Anonymous