Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nas

If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers.

Nas

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

Michael Rapaport

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Snoop Dogg

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

Snoop Dogg

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

Snoop Dogg

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns.

Snoop Dogg

BIKINIS, ZUCCHINIS, MARTINIS. NO WEENIES

Nicki Minaj

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

K'naan

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

Natalia Kills

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

Lupe Fiasco

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

Lupe Fiasco

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

John Cena

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

Herbie Hancock

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

Fat Joe

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

Chris Ofili

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

Pooch Hall

I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.

Justin Timberlake

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

Steve Coogan

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

Questlove

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

Missy Elliot

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

LL Cool J

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

LL Cool J

Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.

LL Cool J

I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.

Jonah Hill

I'm a big hip hop fan.

Lil Jon

Bend over to the front touch toes Back dat ass up and down and get low (get low)

Lil Wayne

They say you're nobody til somebody kills you But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody

Lil Wayne

R.I.P. (Rest in pussy).

Lil Wayne

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

Lil Wayne

Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged

Ludacris

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

Obie Trice

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Josh Peck

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.