Hip Hop Quotes - Page 19

• Why did one straw break the camel's back?
  Here's the secret:
  The million other straws underneath it.

  Mos Def

  Rap, Secret, Camels

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• Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

  DJ Shadow

  Cutting, Essence, Drawing

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• We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks. ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.

  RZA

  Real, Want Something, People

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• I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level
  Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Devil, Dollars

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• My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

  Harrison Ford

  Rap, Character, Kids

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• Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching is what bein an m.c. is all about. I wanted my intelligence to be heard in my lyrics..I wanted the pain to be felt...and the happiness i encountered. Bein an m.c. takes originality, style, imagination, delivery, intelligence and presence.

  Larry Bakersfield

  Witty, Pain, Expression

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• When I hit the bong
  I'm Godzilla takin' over Hong Kong
  Eatin' wonton with a shotgun in long johns.

  Redman

  Rap, Long, Hong Kong

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• When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is this?" At that moment, I could've been written off. But I had to believe because I really love what I do. I'm passionate about it. If 12 million recognize it, that's beautiful. If 12,000 do, that's beautiful. But I'm always going to put my heart and soul in it and I'm going to shoot for the stars and go for the highest levels of recognition and creativity. I definitely doubted myself at the time. But it always come back to believing what I do.

  Common

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

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• I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

  Ice T

  Rap, Long, Waiting

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• I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

  Nina Simone

  Rap, Thinking, Beats

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• I wanna rock right now.

  Rob Base

  Rap, Rocks, Right Now

  Song: It Takes Two

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• My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Mind

  "Song: 'Gin and Juice'". 1993.

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• I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

  Kool Keith

  Tired, Albums, Done

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• Slavery is more mental than anything

  Kanye West

  Slavery

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• Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

  Mos Def

  Hips, Hops, Asks

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• Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

  Andre Benjamin

  Addiction, Mines, Be You

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• You are what you listen to

  Alicia Keys

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• You were put here to protect us.
  But who protects us from you?

  KRS-One

  Rap, African American, Police

  Song: Who Protects Us from You?, Album: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (BDP)

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• Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room;
  You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones.

  Ghostface Killah

  Weed, Baby, Rap

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• I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower,
  Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.

  J-Ro

  Girlfriend, Rap, Color

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• This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

  Eminem

  Rap, Opportunity, Once In A Lifetime

  Song: Lose Yourself

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• Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Giving, Disease

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• You stackin cheddar cause you working at the burger place.

  Inspectah Deck

  Rap, Burgers, Causes

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• Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years,
  But weak ideas irritate my ears.
  Is this the best that you can make?
  Cause if not, and you got more...I'll wait.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Years

  Song: Move the Crowd

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• You know it ain't no stoppin'
  All the doggs I'm droppin'
  It's Friday night, so everything is poppin.

  Ice Cube

  Friday, Rap, Night

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