Hops Quotes - Page 36

• Everybody's not always open to everything. People have biased feelings about certain things, especially in the hip-hop world. The hip-hop world hates homosexuality.

  Fabolous

  Hate, People, Hip Hop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata...my iPod is crazy. I like listening to a lot of stuff in different languages, so my music is always out there for me.

  Prince Royce

  Crazy, Rap, Rocks

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• Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

  Assata Shakur

  Issues, People, Hip Hop

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• I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

  Mac Miller

  School, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.

  Brother Ali

  Artist, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

  Mac Miller

  Kids, Hip Hop, Different

  Source: www.acclaimmag.com

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• Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.

  Eric Thomas

  Meaningful, Rap, Artist

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• I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

  Eric Thomas

  Men, Dna, Blood

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• Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

  Iceberg Slim

  Appreciate, Hip Hop, Culture

  Meraki Mag Interview, www.merakiafrica.com. January 27, 2014.

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• In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

  Moby

  House, Hip Hop, Way

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

  Mel Brooks

  Book, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.

  Schoolboy Q

  Hate, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.vibe.com

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• I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

  Mike Stud

  Witty, Song, College

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• You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Order, People, Hip Hop

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• I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

  Hoodie Allen

  Kids, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: blog.iluvlola.com

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• If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

  Doc Brown

  Successful, Giving, Hip Hop

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

  John Mayer

  Real, Self, Hip Hop

  AIM Celebrity Interview, November 2005.

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• Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

  Axel Alonso

  Years, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks to Schoolly D's "Saturday Night." I would give anything for a video of that.

  Axel Alonso

  Book, Night, Giving

  "Marvel Exclusive: See 5 New Hip Hop Comic Book Covers". Interview with Zach Dionne, www.fuse.tv. October 8, 2015.

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• I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.

  Josh Peck

  New York, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have any experience with that. I don't know man. I understood where his head was at, because he was this 18-year-old cat that thought he was a man, but didn't really know what it meant to be a man.

  Josh Peck

  Cat, Boys, Men

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

  Redman

  Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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• Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.

  Grieves

  Growing Up, Hip Hop, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Art, Hip Hop

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• All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

  Jay-Z

  Rocks, Bullshit, Hip Hop

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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