Hip Hop Quotes

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

Slavery is more mental than anything

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

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

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

Uh I like it like that She working that back, I don't know how to act

After you back it up, then stop; Then wha-wha-what, drop drop it like it's hot!

Leave your 9's at home and bring ya skillz to the battle.

Tough like a Ukulele.

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

If you wanna look good and not be bummy, girl you better give me that money Aooow...

Ooh baby, I like it raw!

Nuthin' can avoid this shot 'cause it's hittin' It's so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

I drive these brothers crazy I do it on the daily They treat me really nicely They buy me all these ices

Jumped In The Fo' Hit The Juice On Ma Ride I Got Front Back, And Side To Side

La di da di, we likes to party We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.

Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep

Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged

So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents

Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show

I be more hipper than a hippopotamus Get off in your head like a neurologist

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

I said it's all good and it's all in fun Now get in the pit and try to love someone

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.

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

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.

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

So concisely, musically we are the herb So sit back and light me. Inhale... My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.

Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.

The 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb, We're rollin' Rainier, and the jealous wanna get some. Every time we do the sucka MC's wanna battle, I'm the man they love to hate, the J.R. Ewing of Seattle.

You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump... Lala la la lala la laaaa

I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever.

They tell me 'find God' like I don't know where He at. And if He lost, then why we followin' Him? Just acknowledge the fact that a Father exists, And a Devil's alive...I'm just caught in the mix.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle. Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels. Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand That Santa Claus is a black man.