Hops Quotes - Page 17

• They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.

  Chuck D

  Military, Army, Giving

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors or the music that was on American Bandstand in the 1950s-'60s.

  Chuck D

  Quality, Doe, Different

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

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• I think it's a beautiful thing how Hip Hop is received by the world.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• The idea of a celebrity endorsing a presidential candidate is nothing new, but the full-throated endorsement for Senator Bernie Sanders from one of the country`s biggest hip hop stars had surprised some political observers.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Stars, Ideas

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I`m lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I`m Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the truth that I sing in my raps align themselves with the policy of Bernie Sanders.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Character, Hip Hop

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it`s like to be real and the social ills that we face, if you aren`t backing Bernie Sanders, I have to question your credibility in terms of do you mean the songs you`re writing.

  Killer Mike

  Song, Real, Rap

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.

  Shane Bunting

  Cutting, Artist, Roots

  Source: 411mania.com

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• The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.

  Ice Cube

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I never go to the Grammys. I just never go. I don't know if I care enough, and I went because my son wanted to go, and they asked us to present Best Hip Hop Group of the Year. You know, we had two records from Compton in there, and it was just like a cool thing to do, and to do with your son, and it was just cool. But we was the first award up, so after I did my thing I just jumped in the car and came on back home.

  Ice Cube

  Home, Son, Years

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.

  Ice Cube

  Teacher, Thinking, People

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that?

  Justin Vernon

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Shining

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

  Caroline Polachek

  Artist, Hip Hop, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

  Questlove

  Hip Hop, Hips, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

  Lykke Li

  Hip Hop, Biggie, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

  Jack Tatum

  Talking, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

  Gold Panda

  Confused, Teenager, Jeans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

  Gold Panda

  Moving, Hip Hop, Sampling

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.

  Pedro Winter

  Hip Hop, Skateboarding, Littles

  "Pedro Winter/Ed Banger". Interview with Heiko Hoffmann, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.

  Victoria Legrand

  Girl, Coffee, School

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Interesting, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

  Paul Banks

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Tails

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenager, Long, Hip Hop

  "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

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• All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenage, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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