Hops Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Simple, Trying Different Things

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• Nobody's gonna ever like all my music but if your talking about the core hip-hop fans that like hardcore rap, they're still gonna feel some of my stuff cuz I rap hard a lot of the time.

  SonReal

  Rap, Talking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

  SonReal

  Voice, Hip Hop, Lessons

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

  SonReal

  Song, Rap, Struggle

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist on things, and that's what that song is all about. It's about putting a twist on stereotypes.

  SonReal

  Song, Wall, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.

  SonReal

  People, Hip Hop, Singing

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

  Wyclef Jean

  Essence, Hip Hop, Community

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• The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.

  Kool Keith

  Mean, Artist, Technology

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• If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

  Mike Shinoda

  Writing, Kids, Who I Am

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