Hip Hop Music Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Hip Hop Music

Hip Hop Music Quotes & Sayings

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One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly. — Common

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. — Steve Purdy

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. — Carrie Brownstein

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 like hip-hop, I like yay music. — Zacky Vengeance

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. — Brian Eno

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop. — Nicole Richie

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. — Zaha Hadid

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. — Fab Five Freddy

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.' — Sean Paul

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

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. — Mayer Hawthorne

When i look to my past i'm not believe in god but for future god is hope. — Kjiva

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing. — Steve Coogan

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. — B.B. King

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

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks. — Erik Parker

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. — Michael Franti

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music. — Lupe Fiasco

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you. — Jay-Z

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that. — Carrie Brownstein

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

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. — Theophilus London

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. — James Mercer

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

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite. — Michael Isabella

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

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music, — Akon

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people. — Saul Williams

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B. — TyDi

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. — Will.i.am

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

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. — Kid Rock

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

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. — David Bowie

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

If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land. — Kjiva

When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead. — Nas

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs. — Nelly

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop. — Thomas Bangalter

London, London, London town,
You can toughen up or get thrown around. — Kano

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop. — Tom Morello

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!' — Sean Paul

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

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before. — Natalia Kills

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged. — Nicki Minaj

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid. — Matthew Morrison

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. — Jay-Z

It ain't about keeping real, it's about keeping it right. — Jeff Chain

I'm just an addict, addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit ... I gotta use it. — Rakim

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture. — Aeriel Miranda

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall. — Jaron Lanier

I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that. — Dustin Lynch

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all. — Chris Lowe

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music. — Charlie Hunnam

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff. — Taylor Hawkins

Pop culture mirrored the segregation. — Jeff Chain

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around. — G-Eazy

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. — Tatiana Maslany

I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life. — Kjiva

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles. — Aloe Blacc

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. — Jess Row

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

Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes — Kjiva

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think. — Conor Oberst

God gave us music, so we play with our words. — Talib Kweli

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands. — Britney Spears

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music. — John Legend

Hip hop music (and the entire category) is one of few that unite fans of all colors, races, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, ages and genders. — Carlos Wallace

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. — Missy Elliott

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry. — Patti LaBelle

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music. — Neil Drumming

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. — Jay-Z

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. — Tinashe

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. — John Cena

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience. — Heavy D

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend! — Lauryn Hill

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody. — Lupe Fiasco

I believe hip hop's characteristic beliefs as a whole are misunderstood, underappreciated and highly underestimated. — Carlos Wallace

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years. — Tina Yothers

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. — Bono

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. — Talib Kweli

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music. — Chuck D

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. — Roy Ayers

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it. — Flo Rida

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

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

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

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. — Ronnie Wood

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

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes. — Erik Parker

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve. — Erykah Badu

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me. — Wale

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

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

If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work — Jeff Chain

I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready. — Zoey Deutch

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

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music. — Diplo

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. — Nicki Minaj