Hops Quotes - Page 14

• Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

  Talib Kweli

  Appreciate, Hip Hop, Way

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• I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Simple, Trying Different Things

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• Nobody's gonna ever like all my music but if your talking about the core hip-hop fans that like hardcore rap, they're still gonna feel some of my stuff cuz I rap hard a lot of the time.

  SonReal

  Rap, Talking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

  SonReal

  Voice, Hip Hop, Lessons

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

  SonReal

  Song, Rap, Struggle

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• A couple years ago it was really hard for me to sing, because there's so much pressure in hip-hop to be a certain way. My biggest thing right now is doing me, because I'm not like other rappers.

  SonReal

  Couple, Rapper, Years

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist on things, and that's what that song is all about. It's about putting a twist on stereotypes.

  SonReal

  Song, Wall, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.

  SonReal

  People, Hip Hop, Singing

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It's going to be a free online mixtape. I think it's going to get some crazy buzz. We have a few marketing campaigns, that I think are going to make it pull through.

  SonReal

  Crazy, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

  Wyclef Jean

  Essence, Hip Hop, Community

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• The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.

  Kool Keith

  Mean, Artist, Technology

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• But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

  Talib Kweli

  Children, Things In Life, Hip Hop

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• I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.

  Tommy Lee

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Stuff

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• I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

  Busta Rhymes

  Successful, Hip Hop, Tongue

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• I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

  Mike Shinoda

  Couple, Rapper, Years

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• If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

  Mike Shinoda

  Writing, Kids, Who I Am

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• I respect everything H3 has already accomplished and respect everything he's trying to get done. We're building a real HOME for the Hip Hop generation complete with all the things we love to do. But it's really about creating educational opportunity and good jobs and that's where Team H3 will prove to be unbeatable.

  Juelz Santana

  Jobs, Real, Educational

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• I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

  Damian Marley

  Class, Hip Hop, Community

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• Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

  James May

  People, Car, Hip Hop

  "Top Gear/ Episode #6.1". Comedy, Talk-Show, May 22, 2005.

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• In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

  K-Maro

  Couple, Europe, Urban Music

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.

  K-Maro

  Wise, Rocks, Europe

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.

  K-Maro

  Differences, Hip Hop, Culture

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I came to a point where I couldn't walk into an urban store and find anything I liked. Everything was just getting too baggy, everything was getting so over [priced]. It's as if what I wanted in street wear was nowhere in stores, with no disrespect to any hip-hop brands.

  K-Maro

  Hip Hop, Disrespect, Hips

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Rap, Thinking, Track

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Rapper, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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