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all you hear are the rusty breezes/
pushing around the weathervane jesus — The Tragically Hip

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop. — Vince Staples

God sent me to piss the world off! — Eminem

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. — Liz Phair

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. — Gustav Ejstes

The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul. — Daniel Dumile

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

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half. — Talib Kweli

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

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness. — Erykah Badu

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible. — Coolio

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

Hit the club, and I'm mad cause they wont let us in.
Now I'm about to go bad like drunk mexicans. — Mistah F.A.B.

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

I lean up to kiss Turner's moist lips, but he pulls back and smirks down at me, touching the bare skin on my hip with gentle fingers. — C.M. Stunich

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast. — Sari Botton

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

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

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

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. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

He don't debate he concentrate on survivin'
He don't like to drive if he's been drinkin'
But he'll drink while he's drivin'
He's the dude — Devin The Dude

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

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business. — John Mellencamp

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

Most of the hip-hop people are very straight. — Andy Bell

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

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

You sound like a young person. You are probably all hip to the lingo the kids use these days." "You and I are the same age, Mr. Tiberius. — T.J. Klune

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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

Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game, — Tony Yayo

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

'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against 'em — Zack De La Rocha

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.' — River Viiperi

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening. — Etta James

Time is real, we can't rewind it ...
Out of everybody I met, who told the truth?
Time did. — Common

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act? — Ras Kass

Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive.
So the day some niggaz come for you, I'm really not surprised. — Xzibit

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. — Ice-T

Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn't have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth. — Rebecca Brooks

I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once.
Ass so fat that you could see it from the front ... — Mos Def

The public is never wrong. When people don't respond to what you do, they're telling you something loud and clear. You're just not listening. — 50 Cent

I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity,
Just hope the Big Man show me some courtesy — Nas

I think it's a beautiful thing how Hip Hop is received by the world. — Aeriel Miranda

I shoot from the hip. — Gordon Ramsay

The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic - geeky and rich and hip. — Douglas Coupland

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

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. — Method Man

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since. — Leo Kottke

I got a lot of friends that come up off the strip for me. The same ones that'll come up off the hip for me. — Drake

The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds. — Wang Leehom

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 get what I desire, it's my empire
And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire — Nicki Minaj

I want you alone," he whispered, gliding a hand around her hip, "on a slow boat to China. Days together, nights ... rocking on the waves. — Ophelia London

Look past the garbage, over the trains,
Under the ruins, through the remains,
Around the crime and pollution,
And tell me ... where I fit in? — Grandmaster Caz

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

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

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

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

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

Only death can cure the hip dilettante. — Gilbert Sorrentino

A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing. — J.D. Salinger

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

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

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot. — George Carlin

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

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

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

This big fat woman bumped me on the floor, she was rarin' to go, she was rarin' to go. Then she did a dip, I almost broke my hip. — Joe Tex

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

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

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

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

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

Separating her thighs. The scent of her arousal hardened every muscle in his body. He moved his hand down her hip and then to her hot, warm core. — Jayne Ann Krentz

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

I shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip. - AC/DC — Stephen King

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

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

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

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

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them. — Tom Petty

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