Hip Hop Quotes - Page 24

• If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget
  That God isn't finished with me yet.
  I feel His hand on my brain...
  When I write rhymes, I go blind and let the Lord do His thang.

  Tupac Shakur

  Stress, Rap, Writing

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• Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse.
  Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth...so get the dental floss.

  Redman

  Rap, Dental Floss, People

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• Even through the unseen, I know that God watches,
  From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us.

  Common

  Dream, Kings, Rap

  Song: The Believer, Album: The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011

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• I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail.
  In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.
  My eyes see the glory, and well,
  The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!"

  Common

  Dream, Believe, Rap

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• I'm living three dreams:
  Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's.
  Cause we can't get along, no resolution?
  'Til we drown all these haters...
  Rest in peace to Whitney Houston

  Kanye West

  Dream, Rest In Peace, Kings

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• I have a dream:
  One day we will get to the promised land.
  Then the president will be me,
  The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it!
  All wackness is now banned.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Dream, Rap, Government

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• What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics?
  Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.

  Skeme

  Rap, Advice, Basics

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• Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

  Keith Murray

  Rap, Cereal, Alphabet

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• Question: Why is that MC's be wack
  And major labels wanna sign that crap?
  A-yo...funk that!

  Phife Dawg

  Rap, Labels, Funk

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• I can't relate to livin' less than great.

  Extra P

  Rap, Relate, I Can

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• Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya:
  You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now.
  Block the music and the people out to admire the love,
  The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club.
  And like marijuana shotguns, let's blow this joint,
  It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Block, Rap, Blow

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• I got lots of love for my crew, that is;
  No love for them other crews and rival kids.
  All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is,
  And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.

  Prodigy

  Rap, Kids, Watches

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• Music just ain't what it used to;
  We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

  Jadakiss

  Song, Rap, Used

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• You've got to realize that the world's a test,
  You can only do your best and let Him do the rest.
  You've got your life, and got your health,
  So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

  Cee Lo Green

  Rap, World, Tests

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• I got a ill gift, I'm real swift
  They be like, 'Damn, he's still rich.'
  When I send my Men in Black,
  Listen, none of them niggas named Will Smith.

  Cam'ron

  Real, Rap, Men

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• If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

  Cormega

  Rap, Crime, Mics

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• I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners,
  Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

  G. Dep

  Rap, Sleep, Lunch

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• It's a thin line between paper and hate,
  Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
  Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come,
  Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

  Nas

  Hate, Rap, Snakes

  Song: Hate Me Now, Album: I Am..., 1999

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• I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em.
  Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
  They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
  I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

  Kool Keith

  Stupid, Rap, Writing

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• It's ninety-six degrees in the shade...
  Before I catch blood on my blade.

  Keith Murray

  Rap, Blood, Degrees

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• Keep my planets in orbit,
  Never forfeit or quit,
  Move forward...
  I talk with the awkward slang,
  I walk with the Wu-Tang.

  RZA

  Rap, Moving, Awkward

  Song: Tragedy

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• Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up...
  Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Gun, Tricks

  Song: Against All Odds

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• You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested;
  If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

  Cormega

  Rap, Mind, Feds

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• 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?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Artist, Black

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• So lovers of life, don't keep your hopes up high.
  Why? Cause it's just a matter of time before it's your turn to die.
  But until then, when you stop breathin',
  It's time to stand up and fight for what you believe in!

  Kirk Jones

  Believe, Rap, Fighting

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