Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Braxton

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.

Tom Colicchio

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

Solange Knowles

There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

Slick Rick

Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.

Snoop Dogg

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

Snoop Dogg

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

Snoop Dogg

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns.

Snoop Dogg

BIKINIS, ZUCCHINIS, MARTINIS. NO WEENIES

Mayer Hawthorne

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

Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

Laurieann Gibson

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

Missy Elliot

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Nile Rodgers

I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I haven't been involved in so much is hip-hop, which I chose not to be involved in because it felt like I would be what they called "perpetrating." It felt like hip-hop was so much of its own culture and that I was not part of that culture.

Nas

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

Nas

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

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

Nas

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

Nas

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

Nas

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

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

Nas

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

Nas

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.

Nas

If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers.

Nas

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

Patti LaBelle

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

Mac Miller

No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.

Lykke Li

I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

Method Man

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

Michael Rapaport

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Erykah Badu

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

Flavor Flav

So get up, get, get get down 911 is a joke in yo town

Fat Joe

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

Chris Ofili

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.