Hops Quotes - Page 21

• Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

  Pitbull

  Party, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

  M.I.A.

  Country, Artist, Hip Hop

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.

  Ewan McGregor

  Party, Hip Hop, Waiting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it never really got its just due. Now, hip-hop seems to be getting that recognition and is more widely accepted, which is great.

  Adrian Younge

  Long, Hip Hop, Culture

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Thinking, Hip Hop, True Life

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Hero, Ideas

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Struggle, Adversity, Artist

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Hip Hop, Emcee

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

  Jimmi Simpson

  Crazy, People, Wagons

  Source: collider.com

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• Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

  Gene Weingarten

  Hip Hop, Hips, Bless

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.

  Phife Dawg

  Thinking, Diversity, Hip Hop

  Source: djbooth.net

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• New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.

  Phife Dawg

  New York, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: djbooth.net

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• New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.

  Phife Dawg

  Christian, New York, Growing Up

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.

  DJ Khaled

  Hip Hop, Soul, Hips

  Source: elitedaily.com

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• I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hero, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.

  Wyclef Jean

  Hip Hop, Done, Hips

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Did the record [Danger] do well? I believe it did what it should have. It showed the hip hop community that Tony Sunshine is doing well and looking great.

  Tony Sunshine

  Believe, Sunshine, Should Have

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I don't care who you talk about down south, Boosie gonna win. I'm the only one to put out a whole album, with more songs, so I don't care who said what. The fans tell the truth. I got real fans - more fans than everybody, so Boosie gonna win [in Hip Hop Survivor: Down South Edition.].

  Lil Boosie

  Song, Real, Winning

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Country, Australia, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.

  Rakim

  Cat, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.

  Rakim

  Essence, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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