Hip Hop Quotes - Page 14

Mental energy from within keeps me higher, Than anything rolled and set on fire

I haven't come to tell you I've got juice I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

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.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive in the underground, but don't nobody know about it.

If I got a missed call, there wasn't money involved

So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up.

There's four sides to every story... If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

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.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.

I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.

Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

Been there, done that Sold crack, got jacked Got shot, came back Jumped on Dre's back!

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.

You think that you can hide; you think you can lay low? I'll roll up on your ass like Hawaii 5-0!