Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Wyclef Jean

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today

Yelawolf

Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

Yelawolf

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

Lupe Fiasco

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

Lupe Fiasco

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

John Cena

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

Obie Trice

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Nelly

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

Moby

In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

K'naan

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

Natalia Kills

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

Nicki Minaj

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

Miri Ben-Ari

You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do.

Kid Cudi

I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

Questlove

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

Pooch Hall

I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.

Sean Paul

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

Tatiana Maslany

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

Josh Peck

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

Kurtis Blow

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

Lindsey Vonn

Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.

Lil Jon

Bend over to the front touch toes Back dat ass up and down and get low (get low)

Lil Wayne

They say you're nobody til somebody kills you But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody

Lil Wayne

R.I.P. (Rest in pussy).