Hip Hop Quotes - Page 31

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

My forte is the music. But obviously if ya don't keep up with the business, then your kinda doing it for nothing. So I do plan on being well off doing, maximizing what I do now. I heard Jimmy Kimmel describe being in your thirties in hip-hop is like the equivalent to being 300 yrs. old; almost like a dinosaur.

Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery

Parents just don't understand.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in hip-hop, it's all about that I exist and these are my feelings and this is what I feel about the world. It's always been an undercurrent.

Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

I stay dipped like the first day of school.

I like to consider myself a student of hip hop. There's a certain level of certification and wit and craftsmanship that comes with rapping. As rap progresses - it's a young genre - it's becoming way more mainstream, crossing over to different lanes. I feel like it's losing its essence in a way, because it's getting commercialised. I want to keep it fresh and keep it progressive, but I also want to respect the foundation of what rap is about.

Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

You are what you listen to

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.