The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
Life without knowledge is death in disguise.
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.
Hip-hop is a vehicle.
Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?
These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican, Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef, Start blastin'...now a new cat is executive chief.
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?
If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.
God gave us music, so we play with our words.
When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
We commute to computers Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors We survivalists, turned to consumers.
Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.
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.
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.
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.
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