Hip Hop Quotes - Page 17

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.

I'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale.

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.

Sippin' on that brown stuff Got you feeling like you found love, Or maybe it was just luck. But honestly...it's probably none of the above.

I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves, I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets. That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

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.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.