Hip Hop Quotes - Page 50

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.

Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.

I thank God for Hip Hop because Marvin Gaye didn't have that and he was able to be that dope. For us to have that and more, I feel like it is up to us to be as dope as we can possibly be.

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do.

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

I'’ve been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.

I never asked to be born, and death's no question. The sun's still shining off the same old lessons, Then why does life feel like an educated guess? And my thoughts are like meals...I'm a sucker for the seconds.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick niggas for they crumbs.