Hops Quotes - Page 12

• I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

  M.I.A.

  Weed, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

  M.I.A.

  Running, Creativity, Hip Hop

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

  Boy George

  Dressing Up, Dancing, Hip Hop

  "Taboo". Interview With Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.

  Afrojack

  Song, Thinking, People

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• I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart.

  Kanye West

  Hip Hop, Firsts, Hips

  "Kanye gets revenge on Nike with Adidas deal". Page Six Interview, pagesix.com. November 28, 2013.

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• A lot of time we didn't know where we were going or how it was going to transition from fishnets into hip-hop ... But it's worked out. We believe in what we do and I think people get that.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!

  Josh Young

  Powerful, Latin, Rap

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• It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you gotta know the roots to really grow. It's like knowing your parents, it's like knowing your culture, so you could be proud of that culture and take it to the world.

  Common

  Children, Thinking, Roots

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• I ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Sound

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• I love artists making cool music, regardless of the style.So, if a country artist making really cool music came along and asked me to work with them, I just might say yes, even though I'm not super-knowledgeable about country, like I am about hip-hop. I might do that because the idea is so interesting.

  Joseph Trapanese

  Country, Artist, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music.

  Ice Cube

  Party, Kids, Thinking

  "The twists after 'Torque'". The Associated Press Interview, www.sptimes.com. January 14, 2004.

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• I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Coffee, Ambition, Boys

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I mean, like a police or ambulance siren in a tune? Because I could own the CD, I could listen to it 50 gamillion times in my car - I still fall for it every time.

  Doug Benson

  Song, Crazy, Hate

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• I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.

  Angie Martinez

  Who I Am, Hip Hop, Community

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• People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

  Erykah Badu

  People, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

  Raekwon

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.

  Lotic

  Sexy, Hip Hop, Musical

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by tapping a bowl with a fork. I'm trying to compress all of my experiences all of the time.

  Lotic

  Track, Hip Hop, Listening

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

  Chuck D

  Voice, Government, Hip Hop

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

  Chuck D

  Hip Hop, Corporations, Hips

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• Kangoroos can't hop backwards.

  Daniel Tosh

  Backwards

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• I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

  Ice T

  Girl, Gangsta, Rapper

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• I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.

  Jenny Lewis

  Mom, Phones, Hip Hop

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