Hip-hop Quotes - page 7

I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too. (Kat Dahlia)
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. View quote
Luke Bryan
I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it. View quote
Luther Campbell
Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it. View quote
Laurieann Gibson
I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song. View quote
Macklemore
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. View quote
Mario Vazquez
I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term that I hated. To me a celebrity DJ is someone that's on 'Big Brother' or in some kind of B-movie who gets a gig to DJ even though they're not talented enough to do it. View quote
Mark Ronson
I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between. View quote
Alex Clare
Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would. View quote
Ann Powers
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop. View quote
Big Smo
I always say, 'Hip-hop takes me everywhere.' It's crazy when I step onstage, and people might not speak much English, but they know every word to your songs. It's kind of freaky, but it's really cool. (Eve)
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. View quote
Fab Five Freddy
Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn. View quote
Fab Five Freddy
I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet. View quote
Fab Five Freddy
Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir. View quote
Marvin Sapp
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties. View quote
Mary J. Blige
The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll. View quote
Matisyahu
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. View quote
Mayer Hawthorne
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships. View quote
Mayer Hawthorne
I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience. View quote
Method Man
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. (Michael Eric Dyson)
Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson