Hops Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Keys, Doors, Hip Hop

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• When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

  Curtis Jackson

  Artist, Hip Hop, Negative

  "No Small Change". Interview with George Wayne, www.vanityfair.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

  Ryan Lewis

  Kids, Hip Hop, Age

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Athlete, Winning, Hands

  "A killer crossover". Interview with Sam Alipour, abcnews.go.com. January 24, 2014.

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• For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

  Chris Paul

  Son, Who I Am, Wife

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

  Cee Lo Green

  Believe, Hip Hop, Way

  "CeeLo and Goodie Mob on Their Comeback, Kanye West's 'Emotional Problems,' More". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. August 13, 2013.

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• I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

  Jack White

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

  Ice T

  Sports, Rap, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

  Ice T

  Growing Up, Son, Clothes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

  Michael Steger

  Girl, Adventure, Cities

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• I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Rocks, Who I Am, Play

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• People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  People, Decision, Insanity

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• It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.

  Robert Glasper

  Space, Hip Hop, Bars

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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