Hops Quotes - Page 29

• The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
  I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.

  Daniel Dumile

  Sex, Rap, Rocks

  "Song: Figure Of Speech (Album: Mr. Hood)". 1991.

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• Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop,
  The second a record was number one on the pop charts.
  But don't skip on the heart, it gotta start in the ghetto,
  Let no one forget about the hard part.

  MC Serch

  Rap, Heart, Ghetto

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• Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
  Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
  Where were you the day hip-hop died?
  Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Artist, Hip Hop

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• The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
  It's all contractual and about money makin'.

  Black Thought

  Rap, Hip Hop, Principles

  "Song: "What They Do" ("Illadelph Halflife")". 1996.

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• Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

  Q-Tip

  Teenager, Rap, Daddy

  "Excursions". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), September 24, 1991.

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• Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now.
  It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

  Eminem

  Rap, Circles, Hip Hop

  Song: If I Get Locked Up Tonight

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• I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

  Mos Def

  Impact, Issues, Hip Hop

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

  Win Butler

  Thinking, Rocks, Media

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• Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

  GZA

  Hip Hop, Enlightenment, Hips

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• How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

  RZA

  Hip Hop, Forever, Hips

  "‘ Wu-Tang Clan's Rza Insists Infighting 'Evaporates' When Crew Is Together" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  Questlove

  Giving Up, Years, Circles

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• Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

  Questlove

  Character, People, Hip Hop

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• As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

  Ozzie Smith

  Air, Hands, Balls

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• I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

  Big Pun

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Proud

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

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• Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Keys, Needs

  Song: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

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• Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

  Sage Francis

  Hip Hop, Albums, Hips

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• There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can get into. Teach me Australian Hip-Hop culture. Don't come to America and try to convince me that you're Gangsta Boo...We're not going to believe you if you're trying to convince us that you're out here trap shooting.

  Rah Digga

  Girl, Believe, Gangsta

  "Iggy Azalea Responds to Female Rapper Rah Digga's Diss About Not Being "Real" Hip-Hop" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

  Sho Baraka

  Growing Up, Hip Hop, Hips

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• Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me, out there, doing it now. I find that, with the whole hip-hop generation, there's a lot of attitude. Whether it's confidence or arrogance or whichever, I will always say to a young guy, “Nobody wants to work with an asshole.” You know, you can still be a great player. You can still play all of the baddest licks in the world. But if you don't have a good attitude, nobody's going to work with you.

  Christian McBride

  Attitude, Mean, Player

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• The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.

  Todd Boyd

  Real, Fall, School

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• And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the issues of teen suicide, bullying, and the overall anti-homosexual sentiment that exist within hip hop culture. I felt so strongly about these issues and this song that I had to do a video that would command some attention, even if it makes some viewers uncomfortable.

  MURS

  Suicide, Song, Bullying

  "Murs’ ‘Animal Style’ Video: Rapper Supports Gay Rights, Kisses A Man In New Clip" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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• At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.

  Jon Pareles

  New Orleans, Vintage, Tunes

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• Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

  Saul Williams

  Hip Hop, Definitions, Hips

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

  Saul Williams

  Reflection, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game.

  Tony Yayo

  Games, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Eminem is the 'Godfather of the hip-hop game,' G-unit members say" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 29, 2010.

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