Hip Hop Quotes - Page 28

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.

What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics? Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.

All right, stop whatcha doin, cause I'm about to ruin The image and the style that you're used to.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America.

Feeling mad hostile, wearing Aéropostale, Flowing like Christ when I speaks the gospel.

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.

We in the 25th hour, It's now or never. We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever. In the end, time waits for no man... What's your plan?

Male groupies gettin' shaky when I come from the rear.

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.

I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.

The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip, Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.

Young Juiceman, he a flamer!

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

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.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

With most electronic music I hear now, the things I like will be the things that have soul. It has to have a feeling in it, where it feels warm, or feels epic. I like to play with that in my music as well, there will always be a piano chord or something underneath it to make you feel at home. I always try and make sure even with vocals and layering that you still feel like you know me, no matter whether you're into grime or hip hop.

Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it

In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us...Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always make these show recaps or vlogs, and essentially what "Touring's Boring" was is, we tried to make our vlogs interesting and almost more like a TV show. That's how we got discovered by TV.

Now if I worry too much about all my have nots, I might not recognize just what I've got.