Hip Hop Quotes - Page 12

• Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

  Steve Harvey

  Beautiful, Thinking, Community

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Rapper, Soul, Want

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• I'm a big hip hop fan.

  Jonah Hill

  Fans, Hips, Bigs

  "Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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

  Charlie Hunnam

  Hips, Hops, Hip Hop Music

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• More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

  Vanilla Ice

  Thinking, White, People

  Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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

  LL Cool J

  Limits, Hips, Accepting

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

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• Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, People, Requirements

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 6, 2005.

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• 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

  Rap, Reality, Talking

  "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.

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• My son is a hip-hop producer.

  Quincy Jones

  Son, Hips, Hops

  Los Angeles Times interview, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1997.

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• 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.

  Jay-Z

  Music, Thinking, Race

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• 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.

  Jay-Z

  Culture, Way, Hips

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• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Thinking, Community

  "Jay-Z Named President of Def Jam Records". www.foxnews.com. December 09, 2004.

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• I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Opportunity, Careers

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• I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

  John F. Kerry

  Rap, Anger, Thinking

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• When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

  Alicia Keys

  New York, Kids, Piano

  "I love Chopin. He's my dawg". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2001.

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

  Wiz Khalifa

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

  Talib Kweli

  Mean, Community, Black

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• 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

  Responsibility, Thinking, Fans

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being A ‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  Talib Kweli

  Jobs, Dope, Rapper

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• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  Talib Kweli

  Couple, Blessing, People

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.

  Talib Kweli

  Thinking, Balance, Hips

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• What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

  Talib Kweli

  People, Care, Radio

  "Talib Kweli: Rap not 'talent-based game right now'" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2013.

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• 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

  Song, Queens, Years

  "Patti LaBelle: The People’s Diva". Interview with Damainion Ewell, allhiphop.com. June 1, 2004.

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• Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Giving, May

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

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• To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

  Queen Latifah

  Rapper, Voice, Stronger

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