Hip Hop Quotes - Page 5

• Everybody looking at you crazy,
  What you gon' do?
  Lift up your head and keep moving,
  Or let the paranoia haunt you?

  Kendrick Lamar

  Crazy, Rap, Moving

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• But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her.

  Drake

  Relationship, Romantic, Baby

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• Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

  Drake

  Friendship, Relationship, Success

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• How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.

  Drake

  Relationship, Drinking, Humble

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• Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love.

  Drake

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

  Drake

  Relationship, Crazy, Humble

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• I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece of this and make do with what's left.

  Drake

  Relationship, Home, Humble

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• I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.

  Drake

  Home, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Successful, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• What's up wit these new niggas? And why they think it all come so easy?

  Drake

  Business, Humble, Thinking

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• When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?

  Drake

  Life, Relationship, Break Up

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• Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

  Drake

  Relationship, True Love, Humble

  Song: Make Me Proud

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• She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ass like a nominee.

  Drake

  Relationship, Sex, Humorous

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• Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

  Sean Paul

  Issues, Bling, Hips

  "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 01, 2002.

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• Real slow hits from the bong...
  Make me feel like Cheech,
  And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

  B-Real

  Real, Rap, Bongs

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• Oh baby you ..got what I need but you say he's just a friend

  Biz Markie

  Baby, Just Friends, Needs

  Song: Just A Friend

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• i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?

  Vanilla Ice

  Rapper, Love At First Sight, Want

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• In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

  Brian Eno

  Europe, House, England

  "Q and A With Brian Eno". Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 1996.

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• I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

  Nas

  Rap, Blunt, Prisoner

  Song: Memory Lane, Album: Illmatic, 1994

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• I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, People, Singing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

  Jay-Z

  Fun, Party, Nightlife

  "Letter to the President" (Video), www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Important, Doe

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• I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, Want, Hips

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• One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Pride, People

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• I'm only 19 but my mind is older...
  When things get for real, my warm heart turns cold.

  Prodigy

  Real, Rap, Heart

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