Hip Hop Quotes - Page 46

...But until then, I'ma shine to the last sin, Resurrect through the birth of my son, and live again.

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously."

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

I'm not going to listen to the hottest Hip Hop station in my city because that's not where I'm at right now. I'm going to listen to the smooth jams of the 90's and early 2000's. That's where I am and that's where my audience is.

According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!

Why's my name the Large Professor? Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.

Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.

For what it's worth, I've been a hip-hopper from birth. Try to disrespect, and get your ass played up like a Smurf.