Hop Quotes - page 6

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind. (Afrika Bambaataa)
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. View quote
Henry Rollins
I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures. View quote
Talib Kweli
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. View quote
Talib Kweli
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. View quote
Nikki Giovanni
If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall. (Heath Ledger)
When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug. View quote
Katy Perry
Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun. View quote
Katy Perry
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going. View quote
Tom Robbins
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job. View quote
Ben Horowitz
Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.' View quote
Ben Horowitz
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. View quote
Grandmaster Flash
For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along. View quote
Grandmaster Flash
So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that? View quote
Grandmaster Flash
For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me. View quote
Grandmaster Flash
We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop. (Grandmaster Flash)
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' View quote
Eminem
You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do Turn them away Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, 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. View quote
Eminem
Streit, Okposo, Tavares, Moulson and Hunter... Hunter for Moulson, it hopped over his stick, Moulson got it back, couldn't control, then THEY SCORE! It's Tavares! John Tavares picked up the loose puck, and fires home his first National Hockey League goal! A power play goal, and the Islanders lead it 2 to 1! How about THAT for fast hands? View quote
Howie Rose
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. View quote
Dr. Dre