Hops Quotes - Page 26

• Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

  Queen Latifah

  Rapper, Voice, Hip Hop

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• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  Queen Latifah

  Awards, Hip Hop, Males

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• Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

  Queen Latifah

  Strong, Believe, Hip Hop

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• The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.

  Queen Latifah

  Girl, Kids, Thinking

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• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, Kids, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.

  Heath Ledger

  Horse, Fall, Legs

  "Kissing cowboy". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2006.

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• But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Inspirational, Dance, Ideas

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• The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

  Wynton Marsalis

  School, Kids, Play

  "Branford Marsalis On Sensitive Musicians And The First Family Of Jazz". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 11, 2012.

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• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Hip Hop, Musical, Hips

  "Meet Tatiana Maslany of TV's Newest Thriller, 'Orphan Black'". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 29, 2013.

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• My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

  Mike Mills

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'

  Nicki Minaj

  Artist, People, Goal

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• As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

  Moby

  New York, Rocks, Blue

  "Q&A: Moby interview". www.cnn.com. November 10, 2006.

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• Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.

  Nas

  New York, Hip Hop, Hips

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Spotlight, Noise

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  Nas

  Hands, Numbers, Hip Hop

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Way, Hips

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  Nas

  Couple, Voice, Hip Hop

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

  Nas

  Warrior, Thinking, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

  Katy Perry

  Fun, Boards, Want

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• I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

  Katy Perry

  Funny, Kids, Rapper

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• When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

  Katy Perry

  Swings, Dancing, Style

  Interview, maniacmagazine.com. November 17, 2010.

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• I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

  Katy Perry

  Hippie, Book, Kids

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• I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

  Liz Phair

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Kids, Thinking, Our Generation

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