Hip-hop Quotes

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man. (Ike Turner)
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. View quote
Isaac Hayes
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. View quote
Method Man
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got. View quote
Missy Elliott
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. View quote
Missy Elliott
There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. View quote
John Mayer
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality. View quote
Chris Cornell
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it. View quote
Mos Def
Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it. View quote
Kendrick Lamar
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. (Darren Aronofsky)
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. View quote
Patti LaBelle
Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness. View quote
Saul Williams
That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it. View quote
Alan Vega
I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you. View quote
Alan Vega
I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7. View quote
Alyson Stoner
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more. View quote
Andre Benjamin
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music. View quote
Adam Kluger
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. View quote
Ajay Naidu
I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now. View quote
Big Pun
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself. (Brian Austin Green)
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you. View quote
Chadwick Boseman
I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone. View quote
Chris Humphreys
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. View quote
Carrie Brownstein
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song. View quote
Deborah Cox