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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• Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

  Ryan Lewis

  Kids, Hip Hop, Age

  Source: respect-mag.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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• I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.

  Misty Copeland

  Moving, Hip Hop, Age

  Source: bknation.org

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• I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

  Damian Marley

  Hip Hop, Fans, Elements

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

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• I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

  El-P

  Hip Hop, Trying, Next Steps

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

  Ishmael

  Brother, Hip Hop, Gone

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• I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music.

  Donnis

  Rap, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

  Aloe Blacc

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

  "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

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• New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.

  Phife Dawg

  New York, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: djbooth.net

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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'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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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