Hip Hop Quotes

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
Eminem

Boasting, Hip, Hop

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
Jam Master Jay

Someone, Reality, Said

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
Nikki Giovanni

Good, Business, Proud

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
Justin Timberlake

Asked, Pop, Hip

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
Ice T

Happy, Everybody, Sounds

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
Ice T

Long, Around, Write

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.
Nicole Richie

Life, Music, Down

I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.
Talib Kweli

Social, Early, Fans

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
Talib Kweli

Music, Nature, Dance

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
Steve Coogan

Music, Dance, Hip

I'm a big hip hop fan.
Jonah Hill

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
Patti LaBelle

Women, Trying, Songs

For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.
ASAP Rocky

Crazy, Stupid, Gay

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
Chris Lowe

Love, Music, Good

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
Obie Trice

Detroit, Hip, Hop

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.
St. Vincent

Music, Country, Afraid

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
Roy Ayers

Music, Words, Write

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
Taryn Manning

Dad, Him, Different

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.
Charlie Hunnam

Love, Music, Hip

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.
Dan Auerbach

Music, Simple, Down

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

Music, Rock, Past

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
Brian Austin Green

Music, Business, Else

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
Dr. Dre

Change, Try, Again

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.
Emily VanCamp

Life, Love, Dancing

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
Steven Van Zandt

Friendship, Family, Rock

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

Love, Whatever, Gone

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.
Grandmaster Flash

Down, Anybody, Along

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.
Grandmaster Flash

Sense, Keep, Hip

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
Grandmaster Flash

Real, Become, Creative

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?
Grandmaster Flash

Trying, Whatever, Anybody

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