Hip Hop Music Quotes

• How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Yellow, White, Hip Hop

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• Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

  Macklemore

  Art, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, Race, Black Youth

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

  Adam Kluger

  Artist, Goal, Hip Hop

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• One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

  Common

  Powerful, Hip Hop, Elements

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

  Britney Spears

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: collider.com

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• I am so all over the place with my music taste, it's ridiculous. It is! I mean, I find myself listening to weird things like hardcore techno music and then I'll be listening to mainstream hip-hop music. But it's like I am so crazy with my music taste. I'll listen to a song, I'll become obsessed with it, and then I'm on to the next one. So it's just very inconsistent.

  Taylor Lautner

  Song, Crazy, Mean

  "Taylor Lautner Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1". Press conference, collider.com. November 12, 2011.

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• I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Hip Hop, Hips, Lanes

  "A Q&A with Mayer Hawthorne". Interview with John Macdonald, www.spin.com. October 20, 2010.

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• When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

  ASAP Rocky

  Artist, Boys, Hands

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 7, 2013.

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• What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

  Simon de Pury

  Hip Hop, Lasts, Hips

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Dream, Empowering, Hip Hop

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• Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

  Nas

  Kids, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.

  El-P

  New York, Father, Writing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Charlie Hunnam

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

  Conor Oberst

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ew.com

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• I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

  Jackie Collins

  Stars, Rap, Book

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• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  Macklemore

  Song, Sex, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

  Angel Haze

  Names, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Talking to Angel Haze". Interview with James C. Mckinley Jr., artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. October 24, 2012.

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• But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

  John Cena

  Hip Hop, Listening, Rhyming

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

  Chris Ofili

  Hip Hop, Enemy, Listening

  "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.

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• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

  Patti LaBelle

  Hip Hop, Want, Hips

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