Hips Quotes - Page 8

• 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, Hip Hop

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• Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma.
  Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

  Cormega

  Karma, Drama, Rap

  Song: Journey, 2009

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• For what it's worth, I've been a hip-hopper from birth.
  Try to disrespect, and get your ass played up like a Smurf.

  Extra P

  Rap, Hip Hop, Disrespect

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• Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.

  Fela Kuti

  Spiritual, Play, Giving

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• The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

  Saul Williams

  Reflection, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game.

  Tony Yayo

  Games, Hip Hop, Hops

  "Eminem is the 'Godfather of the hip-hop game,' G-unit members say" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 29, 2010.

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• Yeah, I finished, it was hard. Those last five miles. It was like giving birth and then being told to run as you're giving birth. It was so much pain in my hips. I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  Pamela Anderson

  Running, Pain, Kids

  "Pamela Anderson: Running last miles of NYC Marathon was ‘like giving birth’" by Chiderah Monde, www.nydailynews.com. November 7, 2013.

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• I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest and one across the hips. The belt also needed an immovable anchorage point for the buckle as far down beside the occupant's hip, so it could hold the body properly during a collision. It was just a matter of finding a solution that was simple, effective and could be put on conveniently with one hand.

  Nils Bohlin

  Science, Simple, Hands

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• Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.

  Erykah Badu

  Music, Hip Hop, Top 10

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• Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Genre Is, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "The third act of Steven Van Zandt" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  America, Giving, Car

  "The Man Who Invented Hip Hop" by Zack O'Malley Greenburg, www.forbes.com. July 9, 2009.

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• Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.

  KRS-One

  Movement, Hops

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• You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

  Cannonball Adderley

  African American, Musician, Way

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• HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS)... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Art, Fun, Rap

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• My first Hip Hop concert was at the Apollo at the age of 12. Southpaw's father was interviewing Queen Latifah and Treach as well as many others. The place was so packed no one could move but I got to be backstage with the video equipment and so I saw the show from a great place.

  Immortal Technique

  Queens, Father, Moving

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• My boyfriend says I dress like a rock star but I would say my style is hip and comfortable.

  Lana Parrilla

  Stars, Rocks, My Boyfriend

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• Once you can squat with 180 kilograms, your arms and shoulders will come along much more receptively...If you want big arms and shoulders, your first priority is to be sure that your leg/hip/back structure is growing and becoming powerful

  Stuart McRobert

  Powerful, Priorities, Growing

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• Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

  Sara Gruen

  Want, Break, Delirious

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

  Bo Burnham

  Song, Art, Self

  "Bo Burnham, comic 'most likely to earn £1m', goes from YouTube to your town". Interview with James Kettle, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Hip Hop, Jazz

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• Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

  Jesse H. Jones

  War, Political, Politics

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• Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

  Chuck D

  Party, Hip Hop, Enemy

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• People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

  Chuck D

  Confused, Rap, Boys

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• When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

  Swizz Beatz

  Growing Up, Jeans, Hip Hop

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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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