Hip Hop Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Hip Hop

Hip Hop Quotes & Sayings

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Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop. — Russell Simmons

Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me. — Slug

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. — Robert Greene

I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach. — Damian Marley

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana ... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. — Kobe Bryant

I was born a premature birth.
My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert. — Eminem

If you wanna look good and not be bummy, girl you better give me that money
Aooow ... — Ol' Dirty Bastard

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. — Teju Cole

It started back in '79,
My whole darn future was on the line.
I created a brand new sensation
Through my mind and the whole darn nation ... — Sylvia Robinson

Until I'm over the hill and over the hump;
I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want. — Aceyalone

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. — Lindsey Stirling

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop. — Cornel West

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop. — Vanilla Ice

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you — C. Delores Tucker

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe. — Zendaya

This one's for you, and I truly hope you hear me,
Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey. — Heavy D

I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat. — Donnie Lewis

Science only answers 'How?'
Religion only answers 'Why?'
The two combined is the true design,
So respect to God cause He drew the lines. — Amir Mohamed

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice. — LeCrae

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s. — Drew

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up. — Michael Rapaport

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead? — Mos Def

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death,
We got to fight the powers that be! — Chuck D

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop? — Will.i.am

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

In the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily — Big Pun

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge. — Fat Joe

Dead Prez is playing on the car's stereo, telling me that it's bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ. — Kris Kidd

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist. — Talib Kweli

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. — Dr. Dre

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. — Patti LaBelle

You got to have style, and learn to be original. — KRS-One

Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz. — Slaine

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life. — Mac Miller

I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon
And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on. — Snoop Dogg

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards! — Ghostface Killah

Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop.
I interrupt your little session ... and wreck shop. — Bumpy Knuckles

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone. — Jay-Z

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. — Nas

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do,
When they reminisce over you, my God. — C.L. Smooth

I'm rockin' PJ's and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt — Mac Miller

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

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass
Just to disrupt the misery of history class. — MC Paul Barman

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything. — Don Cornelius

I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter — Kjiva

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

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. — Afrojack

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head
I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread — Sean Price

God works in different ways and it shows ...
And everybody knows, love comes and goes. — Ed O.G.

I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it. — Luke Bryan

True originator, innovator and creator,
Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major. — One Be Lo

Game recognize game in The Bay mane. — JT The Bigga Figga

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it. — Ice-T

Welcome to Atlanta
Jack and hammers and vogues
Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes
Adolescents packin the fo' — Ludacris

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else. — Busta Rhymes

My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop. — El-P

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does. — Casey Spooner

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists. — Jonathan Franzen

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols. — Tupac Shakur

We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil. — Q-Tip

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant. — Cormega

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics — Common

I'm the type that'll give any man a chance to come correct before leavin in a ambulance — Lord Finesse

a Shakespearean play with a hip-hop score — Jim Gaffigan

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. — Nas

I love weed so much I tried to marry juana — Lil' Wayne

Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up ...
Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up. — Tupac Shakur

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. — Jay-Z

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane ...
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!' — Big Daddy Kane

He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size,
I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide. — Slimkid3

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools. — KRS-One

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. — Emmanuel Jal

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through;
2 miles an hour so everybody sees you. — DJ Jazzy Jeff

Why should i expect yes cos everything i get no — Kjiva

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y

Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer
Now look at me, I can park in my own arena — Jay-Z

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz. — Talib Kweli

The more emotion I put in to it the harder I rock. — O.C.

I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor. — Jim Gaffigan

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it. — Luther Campbell

It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage ...
Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. — Ghostface Killah

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

Take dem shoes off your teeth and stop running your mouth. — Lil' Wayne

My limo driver's white, my attorney black ...
'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac. — Masta Ace

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. — Killer Mike

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture ... that's me. — Eminem

Weird like Murdock,
Thinkin' like Hannibal,
Man like Face,
But I'm wild like B.A. — Styles P

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. — Nikki Giovanni

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim. — Pharoahe Monch

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop. — Obie Trice

Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless,
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace! — Ludacris

Never let no one know how much dough you hold. — The Notorious B.I.G.

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal. — Nas

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate ... make the devil wait. — Kanye West

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community. — SpaceGhostPurrp

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. — John Mayer

I know about graffiti,' I say, and the words come out as if I'm an old lady saying she likes the hip-hop. — Cath Crowley

They say you're nobody til somebody kills you
But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody — Lil' Wayne

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin'
I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn — Tash

Beef is best served like steak:
Well done, get a gun in ya face. — Pusha T