Hip Hop Quotes:

The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns

source: Song: The Guidelines, 1998

topic: Giving, Hip Hop, Shapes, Escapists

quote i never sleep cause sleep is the cousin of death nas Quotes

Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.

topic: Home, People, Hip Hop, Matadors

Quotation Eminem Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key Quotes

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.

topic: People, Giving, Hip Hop, Over The Hill

Quotation Doug E Fresh Hip hop is supposed to uplift and create to educate Quotes

I was about one drink away from my limit, In came a black dress with a black body in it, She looked so timid, it took me a minute To get her in focus

source: Song: Keep It True, Album: All Balls Don't Bounce, 1995

topic: Liars, Rap, Hip Hop, Quitter, Wannabes

Quotation Lauryn Hill You might win some but you just lost one Quotes

Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough...

topic: Rap, Focus, Hip Hop

Quotation Barack Obama The thing about hip hop today is it s smart Quotes

- Action Bronson

topic: Rap, Eagles, Hip Hop, Porsche

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

- Action Bronson

topic: Rap, Essence, Hip Hop, Headless

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

- Action Bronson

topic: Hip Hop, Opera, Tacos

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

- Adam Kluger

topic: Artist, Goal, Hip Hop, Hip Hop Artist, Hip Hop Music

...I've never had a dream in my life, Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued. I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done. So I've been the dream I wanted to be since Day One.

- Aesop Rock

topic: Dream, Rap, Hip Hop

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow...

- Aesop Rock

source: Song: Fast Cars, 2005

topic: Rap, Sheep, Hip Hop

De La Soul, from the soul, black medallions, no gold.

- Afrika Baby Bam

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Soul

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

topic: Yellow, White, Hip Hop, Colorless, Red And White

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.

topic: Hip Hop, Trying, Hips, East Coast

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

topic: Mean, People, Hip Hop

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

topic: People, Hip Hop, Black

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

topic: Rapper, People, Hip Hop

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

topic: People, Hip Hop, Political

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

topic: Hip Hop, Hips, United States

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

topic: Hip Hop, Sound, Different

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Culture

Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again

topic: Brother, Hip Hop, Hips

- Ahmad

source: Song: Back In The Day Jeep Mix, Album: Ahmad, 1994

topic: Kids, Hip Hop, Wish

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

- Ajay Naidu

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick ***** for they crumbs.

- Akinyele

source: Song: The Robbery Song, 1996

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Toasters

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music,

- Akon

topic: Talking, People, Hip Hop, People Talking

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

- Al Franken

topic: Country, Mean, Hip Hop

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

- Alan Vega

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Records, Futuristic

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

- Aloe Blacc

source: "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

topic: Hip Hop, Style, Different

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

- Aloe Blacc

source: "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

topic: Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul, Salsa, Classic Rock

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

- Alyson Stoner

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Ohio, Dancing, Hip Hop, Toledo

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

- Amir Mohamed

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Murder, Time To Kill

I never asked to be born, and death's no question. The sun's still shining off the same old lessons, Then why does life feel like an educated guess? And my thoughts are like meals...I'm a sucker for the seconds.

- Amir Mohamed

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Shining

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Sweet, Love Is, Hip Hop

Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.

Whatever floats your boat...or finds your lost remote...

topic: Rap, Shoes, Hip Hop

Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Boat

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

topic: Illustration, Hip Hop, Female

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

topic: Addiction, Hip Hop

I'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale.

topic: Art, Hip Hop, Energy, Cheques

- Andre Nickatina

source: Song: Killa Whale

topic: Whales, Hip Hop, Pisces

Ayo for yayo Walk around with yayo, all in my nasal I must have been craze yo

- Andre Nickatina

source: Song: Ayo, 2006

topic: Hip Hop, Walks, Craze

I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

- Andy Milonakis

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Guy

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

- Angel Haze

source: "Talking to Angel Haze". Interview with James C. Mckinley Jr., artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. October 24, 2012.

topic: Hip Hop, Gone, Hips, Redundant

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

- Angel Haze

source: "Talking to Angel Haze". Interview with James C. Mckinley Jr., artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. October 24, 2012.

topic: Names, Hip Hop, Hips, Hip Hop Music

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

- Ariel Rechtshaid

source: "Ariel Rechtshaid: the producer behind Vampire Weekend, Haim and Sky Ferreira" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2013.

topic: Hip Hop, Hips, Adventurous

Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it. A 40 ounce to chase it, that's just an understatement.

- ASAP Rocky

topic: Hip Hop, Waiting, Different, Understatement

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

- Asher Roth

topic: Honesty, Hip Hop, Odyssey, Astonishing

It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.

- Ashley Kahn

topic: Rocks, Long, Hip Hop, Lasting Impressions, Timelines

Ketchup I'm hot, dog Frankfurters, you're Nathan But relish hatin'

- Azealia Banks

source: Song: Nathan, Album: Fantasea, 2012

topic: Dog, Hip Hop, Hot, Ketchup, Relish

Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

- B-Real

topic: Real, Rap, Hip Hop, Bongs

How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

- B-Real

topic: Rap, Hip Hop

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

- B-Real

topic: Rap, Hands, Hip Hop, Puffins, Shotguns

My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ***** like Jurassic

- Bahamadia

source: Song: Word Play, Album: Kollage

topic: Hip Hop, Auras, Parks

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

- Baz Luhrmann

topic: Hip Hop, Age, Phrases, Jazz Age

Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold...

- Beanie Sigel

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Soul

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

- Bella Thorne

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Girl, Boys, Hip Hop, Kind Of Girl, Boy Bands

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

- Ben Horowitz

topic: Believe, People, Hip Hop, Musical Genius

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

- Big Boi

source: Twitter post from Jun 3, 2013

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Church

I relieve rappers just like Tylenol

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

source: Song: Raw

topic: Rapper, Hip Hop, Tylenol

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.

source: Song: How U Get a Record Deal?, Album: Looks Like a Job For...

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Presidential

So put a quarter in your ***** Cuz ya played ya'self

topic: Father, Rap, Hip Hop

No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate, as the great will dominate straight to the state Of reignin', gainin'...So put Kane in That category. Period. End of story.

topic: Self, Hip Hop, Cuz

Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail. Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail, Eat a whole fish except for the tail. Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale, And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails.

topic: Rap, Fate, Hip Hop, Frills

Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

source: Song: On the Bugged Tip, Album: Long Live the Kane

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Gold, Ale, Food Stamps

I remember when I fell from my first bike: There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?' Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel... That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle.

source: Song: Smooth Operator, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Style, Frontin

- Big K.R.I.T.

source: Song: Rich Dad, Poor Dad, 2012

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Battle, Gravel

Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more ***** on accident then most ***** get on purpose

source: Song: Let 'em Have It 'l'

topic: Hip Hop, Teeth, Steps, Tooth Fairy

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

source: Song: Da Graveyard

topic: Hip Hop, Church

I know you like the way I am freakin' it. I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it.

topic: Years, Mad, Hip Hop

You can ask Beavis... I get nothing but head.

topic: Hip Hop, Way, Slang

If you don't got endz, you won't be gettin' no skinz, And if you don't got money, you won't scoop a honey. If you don't got cash, you won't be gettin' no ass, And if you don't got loot, you won't be knockin' no boots.

topic: Hip Hop, Beavis

Some girls barely speak, but always askin' for a dollar.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Boots

I'm gettin' stacks while you askin' people, 'Do you want some fries with that?'

source: Song: No Endz No Skinz

topic: Girl, Rap, Hip Hop

Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

topic: Rap, People, Hip Hop, Fries

And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie... I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi.

source: Song: Nigga Please, 2003

topic: Rap, Player, Hip Hop

...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

source: Song: Put it On, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous

topic: Girl, Rap, Hip Hop

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

source: Song: Twinz, 1998

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Littles, Middlemen

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, East

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

source: Song: The Dream Shatterer, Album: Endangered Species, 2001

topic: Taken, Hip Hop, Manhood

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

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Rapper, Hip Hop, Proud, Proud Of Me

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Way

- Big Sean

topic: Boys, Hip Hop, Eras

Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

- Big Sean

topic: Mad, Hip Hop, Email

They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.

- Bishop Nehru

topic: Team, Rap, Hip Hop

Damn it feels good to see people up on it.

- Biz Markie

topic: Rap, People, Hip Hop

I called every day to see how she was doin, Every time that I called her, it seemed somethin was brewin. I called her on my dime, picked up, and then I called again, I said, 'Yo, who was that?' 'Oh, he's just a friend.'

- Biz Markie

source: Song: Just a Friend

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Just Friends

Oh baby you ..got what I need but you say he's just a friend

- Biz Markie

source: Song: Just A Friend

topic: Baby, Hip Hop, Just Friends

I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.

The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.

topic: Rap, Names, Hip Hop

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

source: "Song: "What They Do" ("Illadelph Halflife")". 1996.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Principles

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Heaven, Stairway To Heaven, Stairways

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

topic: Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

- Brian Austin Green

topic: People, Hip Hop, Albums

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

topic: White, Hip Hop, Musical

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

- Brian McKnight

topic: Song, Hip Hop, Hips

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

- Brother Ali

source: Song: DAYLIGHT, Album: The Undisputed Truth, 2007

topic: Rap, Ties, Hip Hop

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

- Bubba Sparxxx

topic: Thinking, Rocks, Hip Hop, Bubba

Commercial rap get the gun clap, day after day.

- Buckshot

topic: Rap, Gun, Hip Hop

Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop. I interrupt your little session...and wreck shop.

- Bumpy Knuckles

topic: Rap, Boys, Hip Hop

I call wild ***** together like Cyrus, And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus.

- Bumpy Knuckles

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Bird

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

You think that you can hide; you think you can lay low? I'll roll up on your ***** like Hawaii 5-0!

source: "Rhymes and reason". Interview with Douglas Century, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2002.

topic: Hip Hop, Trying, Information

Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

topic: Thinking, Hip Hop, Hawaii

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

topic: Rap, Aggravation, Hip Hop, Misbehaving

Miss can I get a second to speak and quietly mention, That I am so into who you are, can I get your attention?

source: Song: A Quarter to Cutthroat

topic: Rap, Sweat, Hip Hop

I got you open like supermarkets!

source: Song: I'll Do It All, Album: The Big Bang, 2006

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Missing

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Supermarkets

- C. Delores Tucker

topic: Hip Hop, Filth, Language

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, When they reminisce over you, my God.

- C.L. Smooth

source: "Song: "They Reminisce Over You" ("Mecca and the Soul Brother")". 1992.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Over You, Deja Vu

And I'm telling you now the frustration The future's facing from the anger in the nation.

- C.L. Smooth

topic: Rap, Frustration, Hip Hop

Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other...

- Canibus

topic: Mirrors, Two, Hip Hop

They say hard work pays off Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job

- Capital STEEZ

source: "Song: "Survival Tactics"". 1999.

topic: Jobs, Hard Work, Hip Hop

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

- Cappadonna

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Sound

I stay dipped like the first day of school.

- Cappadonna

source: Song: MCF, Album: The Pillage

topic: Rap, School, Hip Hop, First Day Of School

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.

- Carmelo Anthony

topic: Art, Hip Hop, Guy

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

- Carrie Brownstein

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop, Genres Of Music

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

topic: Country, Hip Hop, Firsts, Referencing, Bebop

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

- Cat Power

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Rocks, Hip Hop, Connections

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

topic: Believe, Hip Hop, Way

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

topic: Lying, Rap, Hip Hop

You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, World, Procrastinating

I wanna lie to you sometimes...but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good...but it ain't.

source: Song: One For The Road, 2002

topic: Rap, Winning, Hip Hop

And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.

topic: Lying, Rap, Hip Hop

- Celph Titled

topic: Pain, Rap, Hip Hop, T Pain

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

- Chad Hugo

topic: Thinking, White, Hip Hop

Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

- Chamillionaire

topic: Hip Hop, Dumb, Nerd

So much leather inside my car my horn moos.

- Chamillionaire

topic: Car, Hip Hop, Leather

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

- Charlie Hunnam

topic: Hip Hop, Hips, Hops, Hip Hop Music

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

I make chicks consider themselves widows whose husbands ain't even died yet.

source: Song: Freestyle Rhymes

topic: Rap, Wrestling, Hip Hop, Blind Rage

I'm on a different plane like HervÃ© Villechaize

source: Song: How it Goes

topic: Husband, Rap, Hip Hop

There's so many gay rappers... They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Different

I love hip-hop videos. It was not meant as disrespect. I used to watch those videos and think, "Are these guys kidding? They've got to be kidding!" But they're not and that in itself is what makes them good.

topic: Rap, Gay, Hip Hop

- Chris Cunningham

source: Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. July 31, 2005.

topic: Thinking, Hip Hop, Guy

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.

- Chris Ofili

source: "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.

topic: Hip Hop, Listening, Enemy, Public Enemies, Sampling

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

topic: Rap, Smell, Hip Hop

And when I say it, they get alarmed... 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.

source: Song: Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos

topic: Rap, Government, Hip Hop

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Bombs

I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.

topic: Rocks, Hip Hop, Culture, Recorded Music, Djs

These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

topic: Thinking, Hip Hop, Able

I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.

topic: Rap, Kkk, Hip Hop

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Posse

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

topic: Party, Hip Hop, Enemy, Public Enemies

All I want is peace and love on this planet. Ain't that how God planned it?

source: Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Rap, Fighting, Hip Hop

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

source: Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, And Love

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

source: Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Blame

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

source: Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

topic: Hero, Hip Hop, Black

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

topic: Years, Hip Hop, Lazy, Infantile

In this lifetime, you got two things: Bad and good, and ain't nothin' in between.

topic: Rap, School, Hip Hop, Xerox, School Of Hard Knocks

- Cold 187um

topic: Rap, Two, Hip Hop

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Dry

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

topic: Hip Hop

Time is real, we can't rewind it... Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did.

topic: Rap, Oil, Hip Hop

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

topic: Real, Rap, Hip Hop, Rewind

You would think I would recycle by the way I found my last chick...cause all she wants is paper or plastic.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

- Consequence

topic: Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks, So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.

- Consequence

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Balls, Chained

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

- Coolio

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, World

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

- Coolio

source: Song: Fantastic Voyage, Album: It Takes A Thief, 1994

topic: Cities, Hip Hop, Slides

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

- Cormega

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Crime, Mics

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

- Cormega

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Mind, Due Time, Anorexics

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

- Cornel West

topic: Thinking, Hip Hop, Hips, Homophobic

You're mad cause my style you're admiring, Don't be mad...UPS is hiring

- Craig Mack

topic: Mad, Hip Hop, Style

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

- Crooked i

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Apocalypse

Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter...

- Crooked i

topic: Rap, Gun, Hip Hop

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission, Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it.

- Curren$y

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Arena

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

- Curtis Jackson

topic: Artist, Hip Hop, Battle

When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.

- Cyhi the Prynce

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Passion, Rapper, Hip Hop, Outkast

I'm like Demerol... No disrespect to the Jacksons, but I kill mics.

- Cyhi the Prynce

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Disrespect, Mics

I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.

- D-Nice

topic: Thinking, Hip Hop, Musical

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

- Damian Marley

source: Song: Strong Will Continue, Album: Distant Relatives, 2010

topic: Motivational, Self, Hip Hop

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

- Damon Albarn

topic: Hip Hop, Elements, Hips

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

topic: Simple, Play, Hip Hop

There's four sides to every story... If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.

Classical slap-stick rappers need Chapstick.

topic: Wall, Rap, Hip Hop, Ignore Me

Raise your right palm: We do solemnly swear To stack more dough more calmly this year.

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Needs, Chapstick

Nowadays, the game is all bugged out, Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

topic: Rap, Years, Hip Hop

Listenin to nothin, takin no suggestions, All destructive criticisms that can't improve on perfection.

topic: Rap, Games, Hip Hop