Hops Quotes - Page 22

• Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

  Rakim

  Views, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• There is still consciousness in hip hop.

  Rakim

  Hip Hop, Hips, Consciousness

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.

  Rakim

  Rapper, Artist, Games

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.

  Rakim

  Fire, Perspective, People

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I think things are gonna change. I'm gonna take the age limit off of hip hop.

  Rakim

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Age

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.

  Rakim

  Football, Couple, Team

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.

  Rakim

  Games, People, Hip Hop

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get down. Our get down was more blue collar. Our aspirations were to shine a light on the plight and experience of the inner cities of America.

  Lyor Cohen

  Cities, America, Light

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.

  Swizz Beatz

  Car, Hip Hop, Hearing

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I've been watching battle rap since that time period when Cassidy was hot, Murda Mook and Lux first when at it. That was a very pivotal time in hip-hop.

  Ab-Soul

  Rap, Hip Hop, Battle

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the streets to be first.

  Pusha T

  Fashion, Hip Hop, Culture

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• Coming up, you [got new] sneakers and you had to run outside to make sure everyone saw. It was on display. That's just part of Hip Hop culture, part of the competitive spirit of Hip Hop. This is not new, I don't believe it's new.

  Pusha T

  Running, Believe, Sneakers

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.

  Kanye West

  School, Gun, People

  Source: djbooth.net

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• A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.

  Kanye West

  Artist, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: djbooth.net

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• There's no major label in the world that would have let me make video game music, then conscious hip hop. They want you to find your audience, your lane, and stay in it until it ends. I can't do that.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Games, Hip Hop, Video

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• What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America.

  RZA

  America, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.rappersiknow.com

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• There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

  T. D. Jakes

  Hip Hop, Rooms, Hips

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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• I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Girl, Song, I Like You

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Hip Hop, Hips, Middle

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

  Bruno Mars

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• I've sort of realized there's a definite pattern to my output at this point: there's an album that everybody sort of loves, that's a real balance between the old and new, like The Dreamer or No Beginning No End, like a blend of jazz and hip-hop, or r&b and soul and hip-hop.

  Jose James

  Real, Hip Hop, Soul

  Source: revive-music.com

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• Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

  Miguel

  Hip Hop, Musical, Foundation

  Source: us.napster.com

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• I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

  Ice Cube

  Artist, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

  Ice Cube

  Country, Hip Hop, Together

  "Mic, then movie: Ice Cube plays Soundset while prepping N.W.A. biopic (and 'Barbershop 3')". Interview with Chris Riemenschneider, www.startribune.com. May 22, 2015.

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• I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Strong, Men, Rapper

  Source: www.npr.org

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