Famous Quotes & Sayings

Two Chainz

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

Tupac Shakur

Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)

Tupac Shakur

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

Wale

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

Saul Williams

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

Saul Williams

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

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

Zacky Vengeance

I like hip-hop, I like yay music.

Robert Glasper

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

Hugh Hefner

There are many roads to Mecca.

Gregg Popovich

If you think about it and look back at the Detroit series, ... we played seven people, period. You have to be pretty fortunate to just play seven people in a series like that, so we can use more people, without a doubt.

Greg Ryan

I know I can take my kid out to a hockey game whenever I want. I got three (tickets) for $45. You can't get one in Detroit for $45.

Gerard Gallant

I hope tonight was an off night. We've been playing well and a win over Detroit would have been huge.

Tomas Vokoun

You can't stop 40 or 45 shots a night and expect to win. Detroit has five Hall of Fame players on the team. You can't give them 45 shots.

Karen Pagoda

They had to go from Shanghai to Narita, then Narita to Detroit, then Detroit to Albany.

Charles Barkley

This is the most wide open I've ever seen the NBA playoffs. The only thing that would surprise me is if San Antonio and Detroit aren't in the Finals. Anything else wouldn't surprise me.

Douglas Brinkley

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

Big Sean

I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

Larry Alexander

The mood in Comerica Park, downtown Detroit and around the region during All-Star Week was electrifying, and our residents were welcoming, happy and proud of metro Detroit as their hometown.