Hops Quotes - Page 30

• Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

  Yelawolf

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hardcore

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• Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

  Yelawolf

  Hip Hop, World, Hips

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• This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

  Yelawolf

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

  "Yelawolf issues a challenge to Machine Gun Kelly" by D.L.Chandler, www.mtv.com. November 2, 2011.

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• I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.

  Russell Simmons

  Commitment, Careers, Common Purpose

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• As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.

  Emilio Estefan

  Dream, Latin, Together We Can

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• I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe.

  Pitbull

  Hip Hop, House, Bass

  "Pitbull: 'I would be hypocritical to perform there'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

  Ishmael

  Brother, Hip Hop, Gone

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• My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.

  El-P

  Hip Hop, Eras, Hips

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.

  El-P

  Independent, Hip Hop, Hips

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people - and I can be included in that category sometimes - that get frustrated feeling like maybe the industry has handcuffed itself, or trained its artists to do or think about music in a way that classically hasn't led to the greatest records in hip-hop.

  El-P

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

  El-P

  Art, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

  El-P

  Hip Hop, Trying, Next Steps

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.

  El-P

  Rocks, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.

  El-P

  Fashion, Growing Up, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

  El-P

  Moving, Always Trying, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

  El-P

  Hip Hop, Style, Elements

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

  Natalie Portman

  Laughing, Hip Hop, Want

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Kids, Rocks, Years

  "Superfly Co-Founders Jonathan Mayers & Richard Goodstone on Bonnaroo's Future and Teaming With Live Nation". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. June 8, 2015.

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• When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.

  Charlie Day

  Rap, Insecure, Self

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.

  Matt Skiba

  Stars, Racing, Collaboration

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.

  Matt Skiba

  Crazy, Kids, Water

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

  Girl Talk

  People, Hip Hop, Different

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That's what it's all about - get this money. That's basically what I'm saying.

  Nas

  Years, Games, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Hips, Form

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Hips, Retarded

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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