Hops Quotes - Page 35

• I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

  Bella Thorne

  Girl, Boys, Hip Hop

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

  Misty Copeland

  Growing Up, Gymnastics, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.

  Misty Copeland

  Hip Hop, Dancer, Ballet

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.

  Misty Copeland

  Moving, Hip Hop, Age

  Source: bknation.org

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• No matter what though, there's always rock & roll. There's rock 'n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock & roll in pop music, there's rock 'n' roll in soul, there's rock 'n' roll in country. When you see people dress and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock & roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star.

  John Varvatos

  Country, Stars, Rocks

  "The GQ+A: John Varvatos on His New Book 'John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion'". Interview with Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 17, 2013.

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• The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

  Ludacris

  Hip Hop, Community, Trying

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• I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Majority

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• Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

  Maya Angelou

  Fashion, Attitude, Who I Am

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz.

  Slaine

  Fighting, Past, Rocks

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• I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "Dakota Fanning spills the dirt on kissing Kristen Stewart in ‘The Runaways’". uproxx.com. March 11, 2010.

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• Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

  Jimmy Heath

  Rap, Hip Hop, Needs

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• As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to music all the time, whether it's hip-hop or soul or rock or whatever. I'm always listening to music and trying to learn from other songwriters and how they tap into certain emotions and communicate more clearly.

  Trip Lee

  Artist, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop.

  Trip Lee

  Christian, Hip Hop, Doe

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• I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.

  Tinchy Stryder

  Brother, Inspiration, Writing

  "Tinchy Stryder: 'I named myself after a Sega Megadrive game'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2009.

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• There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

  Yelawolf

  Real, Hip Hop, Alabama

  Source: www.rapireland.com

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• Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities, all social classes, they're all there enjoying the game. Hip-hop has been one of the only forms of music that has provided that kind of atmosphere.

  LeCrae

  Sports, Ethnicity, Games

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• Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.

  Yelawolf

  Thinking, Expression, Hip Hop

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• When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Creating, Hip Hop

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• Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.

  Michael Rapaport

  Country, Hate, Kids

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 01, 2011.

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• Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.

  Nas

  Moving, Hip Hop, Important

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'.

  Nas

  Song, Confused, Awards

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

  Nas

  Order, Hip Hop, Pioneers

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.

  Nas

  Games, Space, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

  Nas

  People, Focus, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

  Morris Chestnut

  Workout, Work Out, Hip Hop

  "Morris Chestnut "Not Easily Broken". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 30, 2009.

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