Hip Hop Quotes - Page 27

• Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
  And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

  Phife Dawg

  Being Yourself, Lying, Rap

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• It seem like everybody dress tight now,
  And I just want my credit.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Dresses, Credit

  Song: Gifted

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• There's divinity within because we come from the divine,
  A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time:
  When the wind blows, and the world turns,
  And the rain drops, and the baby cries,
  And the bird flies, and the ground quake,
  And the stars gleam.

  Q-Tip

  Baby, Stars, Rain

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• We fight every night, now that's not kosher
  I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer
  And wake up to be greeted by an argument again
  You act like you're ten
  So immature, I try to concentrate on a cure
  And keep lookin' at the front door.

  Extra P

  Rap, Fighting, Night

  "Song: 'Looking at the Front Door'". 1991.

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• You can't take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen
  Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Rap, Kitchen, Matter

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• I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
  I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
  Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
  Wish America had universal health care...
  Cause ain't no help here.

  Ed O.G.

  Christian, Rap, America

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• Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
  The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

  Kelvin Mercer

  Rap, Debt, Earth

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• Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators
  That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.'

  MF Grimm

  Pain, Rap, Earth

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• The first lady in my life, but now you're gone,
  I learned through the years to keep carrying on.
  Your picture brings me tears and memories,
  The way things could be...and they should be, but they're not.

  Afrika Baby Bam

  Memories, Rap, Years

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• Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.

  J Dilla

  Falling In Love, Rap, Sells

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• You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris.

  RZA

  Rap, Men, Weakness

  "Song: "4th Chamber" (Album: "Liquid Swords")". 1995.

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• I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.

  Ras Kass

  Rap, One Liner, Latitude

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• I live by the beat like you live check to check.
  If you don't move your feet then I don't eat,
  So we like neck to neck.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rap, Moving, Feet

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• Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it.
  All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.

  T.I.

  Rap, Panic, Worst

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• It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb,
  It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Dumb, Facts

  Song: Sherane A.k.a Master Splinter's Daughter

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• Rappers act so wild, and love to profile,
  Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Rap, Style, And Love

  Song: Smooth Operator, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

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• Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Stupidity, Epitome

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• How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

  Crooked i

  Rap, Apocalypse, Atomic Bomb

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• Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on,
  First they're guilty, now they're gone!

  Chuck D

  Rap, Smell, Hollywood

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• Nowadays, the game is all bugged out,
  Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rap, Games, Hammers

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• If you love someone, you should say it often,
  You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin.
  Wake up, it's important that you know that
  No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Important, Coffins

  Song: Poor Georgie

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• I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes...
  Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

  Dr. Dre

  Rap, Years, Games

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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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• Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
  I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
  Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb...
  Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.

  E-40

  Jesus, Rap, Dancing

  Song: Tell Me When To Go, Album: My Ghetto Report Card, 2006

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• They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell,
  But the black is back, and it's bound to sell.
  Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July...
  And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.

  Flavor Flav

  Lying, Rap, July

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