Hip Hop Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  People, Political, Attention

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• If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Artist, Thinking, Racism

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• Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

  T.I.

  Inspirational, Hater, Rap

  Song: Live Your Life

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• 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.

  Missy Elliot

  Kids, Unity, Important

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

  Josh Peck

  May, Hips, Hops

  "‘Battle Of The Year’: Why Is Josh Holloway In A Break Dancing Movie? (And 24 Other Urgent Questions)". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

  Michael Rapaport

  Sports, Hips, Hops

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• But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

  Michael Rapaport

  Years, People, Together

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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• Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

  Alicia Keys

  Views, Stuff, Awful

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

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• Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost.

  Nas

  Motivational, Integrity, Boss

  Song: Bridging The Gap 12", Album: Street's Disciple, 2004

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• If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.

  KRS-One

  War, Talking, Culture

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• So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Junk

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• I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.

  Ice T

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• 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

  Sister, Brother, Growing Up

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• I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.

  Pooch Hall

  Disrespect, Want, Hips

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• 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

  Art, Guy, The End Of The Day

  "Kickin' it with Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 21, 2011.

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• 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.

  Isaac Hayes

  Art, Brother, School

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

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• As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Rocks, Soul, Hips

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• Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

  Kid Cudi

  Beautiful, Artist, Rapper

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• Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

  Kanye West

  Memories, Blessing, Painful

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• If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

  Michael Winslow

  Art, Blessing, Eggs

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

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• People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Rocks, Ideas, Space

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• My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• My nards aren't clean
  Ive been partying
  With Charlie Sheen

  Simon Rex

  Party, Clean, Charlie

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• Business money reattaches worldwide
  Deep inside stops the diamond rocks
  In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world
  Rap moves on to the year three thousand

  Kool Keith

  Rap, Moving, Rocks

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• 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

  Andre Benjamin

  Illustration, Female, Enough

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