Hip-hop Quotes - page 8

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s. (Michael Rapaport)
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up. View quote
Michael Rapaport
But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all. View quote
Michael Rapaport
Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports. View quote
Michael Rapaport
A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on. View quote
Miguel
My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser. View quote
Mike Mills
I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here. View quote
Monie Love
My greatest contribution to hip-hop was allowing the United States of America to know and understand exactly how far they reach, and how influential they are to children in completely different countries because I am the import. View quote
Monie Love
White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate. View quote
Narada Michael Walden
I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before. View quote
Natalia Kills
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully. (Phil Anselmo)
I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue. View quote
Pooch Hall
I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person. View quote
Ryan Guzman
Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know. View quote
Ryan Lewis
The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things. View quote
Sharon Jones
In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover. View quote
Sir Mix-a-Lot
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from. View quote
Steven Sater
When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff. View quote
Swizz Beatz
My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois. View quote
Sean Paul
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues. View quote
Sean Paul
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)
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! View quote
Sean Paul
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs. View quote
T. J. Miller
I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen. View quote
Tablo
I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this. View quote
Tom Colicchio