Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miri Ben-Ari

You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do.

Nelly

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

Ice T

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Ice T

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

Kid Cudi

I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

Patti LaBelle

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

Mac Miller

No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.

Lykke Li

I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

Method Man

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

Erykah Badu

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

Flavor Flav

So get up, get, get get down 911 is a joke in yo town

Eminem

They call me superman, I'm here to rescue you.

Eminem

I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

Eminem

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

Eminem

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

Eminem

God sent me to piss the world off!

Eminem

You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.

Tom Colicchio

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

Solange Knowles

There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

Slick Rick

Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.

Mayer Hawthorne

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

Mayer Hawthorne

Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

Laurieann Gibson

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

Nile Rodgers

I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I haven't been involved in so much is hip-hop, which I chose not to be involved in because it felt like I would be what they called "perpetrating." It felt like hip-hop was so much of its own culture and that I was not part of that culture.

Nas

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

Nas

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 is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

Nas

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

Nas

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

Nas

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Nas

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

Nas

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

Nas

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.