Hops Quotes - Page 13

• According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!

  Felipe Esparza

  Children, Support, Hip Hop

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• Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

  J. B. Smoove

  Names, Hip Hop, Dancer

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• Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.

  Joell Ortiz

  Writing, Names, Hip Hop

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• I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.

  DJ Khaled

  Growing Up, Boys, Roots

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• I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took the dancehall culture and mixed it up with the hip-hop as well. I kept going, going, and I got real hot in the streets of Miami - you know, doing pirate radio - then ended up doing 99 Jamz, the big station out there.

  DJ Khaled

  Real, Boys, Jamaica

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• I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.

  Toni Braxton

  Hip Hop, Here And There, Fans

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• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  Patrick Stump

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

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• Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rap, White, Dancing

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• My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.

  Petey Pablo

  Song, Mean, Long

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• People will less and less need to put an identity on genres, such as "hip hop," "electronica" and so forth. That's what I try to do with Princess Superstar. Why should a musician be limited to only one form or one genre of music? And so, I think the same will hold true for the whole male/female categorization.

  Princess Superstar

  Princess, Thinking, People

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• My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own.

  Black Thought

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

  Henry Rollins

  Teacher, Kings, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.

  TyDi

  Europe, America, Australia

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.

  Denzel Whitaker

  Rap, Rocks, House

  Source: aalbc.com

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• When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The borders and boundaries of hip-hop have been broken all over the world. There's a great scene everywhere you go.

  Shane Bunting

  Broken, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Monsters In the Closest: Swollen Members talk new album & more". HipHopCanada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. May 7, 2002.

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• Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

  Vince Staples

  Kids, Hip Hop, Drug

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

  Vince Staples

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Too Much

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death.

  Immortal Technique

  Hip Hop, Rhyming, Hips

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it.

  Snoop Dogg

  Attitude, Names, Hip Hop

  "Snoop Dogg/Lion: ‘The ‘Turbo’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. July 31, 2013.

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• African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.

  David Simon

  Loss, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: progressive.org

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• I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Rap, Cities

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

  Talib Kweli

  Zero, Essence, People

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.

  Talib Kweli

  Country, Inspiration, Hip Hop

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Australia, Hip Hop

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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