Hops Quotes - Page 39

• With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Rapper, Play

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Artist, Hip Hop

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Romance

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• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  Questlove

  Art, Hip Hop, Hips

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• I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Hip Hop, Important

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• Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

  Nicole Richie

  Country, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Nicole Richie Grows Up". "Interview Magazine" Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

  Kid Rock

  Taken, School, Hip Hop

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• The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.

  Ray Romano

  Queens, Golf, Play

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• I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Hip Hop, Musical

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• When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Years, Indie Rock

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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• Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.

  Skrillex

  Design, Hip Hop, Facts

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

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• When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

  James Surowiecki

  College, Thinking, Mind

  "Rent-Seekers". www.newyorker.com. August 13, 2007.

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• One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Pride, People

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

  Gabrielle Union

  People, Next, Kind

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• What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

  Saul Williams

  Hip Hop, Balance, Needs

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

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• I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

  Saul Williams

  Cnn, People, Hip Hop

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

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• The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

  Amy Winehouse

  Sweet, Love Is, Hip Hop

  "Frank opinions" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

  will.i.am

  Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

  will.i.am

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

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

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• Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Impact, Hip Hop, Political

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• Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Hip Hop, Pavement, Hips

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• Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Clothing Line, Black Youth, Clothes

  "Is Bill Cosby Right?". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2005.

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• Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, Race, Black Youth

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Intelligent, Offering, Seductive

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Profound, Hip Hop, Guy

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