Hip Hop famous quotes
05-13-2025
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I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid I give it a rivet, hold it, stand at the pivot I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit
-- Aceyalone -
The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns
-- Aceyalone -
Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.
-- Aceyalone -
The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.
-- Aceyalone -
I was about one drink away from my limit, In came a black dress with a black body in it, She looked so timid, it took me a minute To get her in focus
-- Aceyalone -
Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough...
-- Action Bronson -
Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.
-- Action Bronson -
Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note
-- Action Bronson -
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
-- Adam Kluger -
...I've never had a dream in my life, Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued. I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done. So I've been the dream I wanted to be since Day One.
-- Aesop Rock -
Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow...
-- Aesop Rock -
De La Soul, from the soul, black medallions, no gold.
-- Afrika Baby Bam -
How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
-- Ahmad -
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
-- Ajay Naidu -
When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick ***** for they crumbs.
-- Akinyele -
When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music,
-- Akon -
It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.
-- Al Franken -
That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
-- Alan Vega -
Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
-- Aloe Blacc -
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
-- Aloe Blacc -
I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.
-- Alyson Stoner -
Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.
-- Amir Mohamed -
I never asked to be born, and death's no question. The sun's still shining off the same old lessons, Then why does life feel like an educated guess? And my thoughts are like meals...I'm a sucker for the seconds.
-- Amir Mohamed -
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.
-- Andre Benjamin -
Whatever floats your boat...or finds your lost remote...
-- Andre Benjamin -
Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter
-- Andre Benjamin -
Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.
-- Andre Benjamin -
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.
-- Andre Benjamin -
I'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale.
-- Andre Nickatina -
Ayo for yayo Walk around with yayo, all in my nasal I must have been craze yo
-- Andre Nickatina -
I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.
-- Andy Milonakis -
I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.
-- Angel Haze -
I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.
-- Angel Haze -
Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.
-- Ariel Rechtshaid -
Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it. A 40 ounce to chase it, that's just an understatement.
-- ASAP Rocky -
It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.
-- Asher Roth -
It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.
-- Ashley Kahn -
Ketchup I'm hot, dog Frankfurters, you're Nathan But relish hatin'
-- Azealia Banks -
Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.
-- B-Real -
How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?
-- B-Real -
Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt Pumped my shotgun, ***** didn't jump... Lala la la lala la laaaa
-- B-Real -
My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ***** like Jurassic
-- Bahamadia -
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold...
-- Beanie Sigel -
I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.
-- Bella Thorne -
Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
-- Ben Horowitz -
We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.
-- Big Boi -
When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'
-- Big Daddy Kane -
I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
So put a quarter in your ***** Cuz ya played ya'self
-- Big Daddy Kane -
No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate, as the great will dominate straight to the state Of reignin', gainin'...So put Kane in That category. Period. End of story.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail. Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail, Eat a whole fish except for the tail. Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale, And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
I remember when I fell from my first bike: There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?' Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel... That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle.
-- Big K.R.I.T. -
Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt
-- Big L -
Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more ***** on accident then most ***** get on purpose
-- Big L -
Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show
-- Big L -
I know you like the way I am freakin' it. I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it.
-- Big L -
If you don't got endz, you won't be gettin' no skinz, And if you don't got money, you won't scoop a honey. If you don't got cash, you won't be gettin' no ass, And if you don't got loot, you won't be knockin' no boots.
-- Big L -
Some girls barely speak, but always askin' for a dollar.
-- Big L -
I'm gettin' stacks while you askin' people, 'Do you want some fries with that?'
-- Big L -
Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.
-- Big L -
And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie... I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi.
-- Big L -
...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily
-- Big Pun -
Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.
-- Big Pun -
I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.
-- Big Pun -
I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.
-- Big Pun -
Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.
-- Big Sean -
Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed
-- Big Sean -
They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.
-- Bishop Nehru -
I called every day to see how she was doin, Every time that I called her, it seemed somethin was brewin. I called her on my dime, picked up, and then I called again, I said, 'Yo, who was that?' 'Oh, he's just a friend.'
-- Biz Markie -
Oh baby you ..got what I need but you say he's just a friend
-- Biz Markie -
I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.
-- Black Thought -
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.
-- Black Thought -
If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway
-- Black Thought -
Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
-- Black Thought -
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
-- Brian Austin Green -
In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
-- Brian Austin Green -
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
-- Brian McKnight -
I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
-- Bubba Sparxxx -
Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop. I interrupt your little session...and wreck shop.
-- Bumpy Knuckles -
I call wild ***** together like Cyrus, And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus.
-- Bumpy Knuckles -
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
-- Busta Rhymes
