Hip Quotes
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Hip Quotes & Sayings
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all you hear are the rusty breezes/
pushing around the weathervane jesus — The Tragically Hip
pushing around the weathervane jesus — The Tragically Hip
Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.
— Russell Simmons
Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.
— Robert Greene
I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
— Damian Marley
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana ... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.
— Kobe Bryant
I was born a premature birth.
My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert. — Eminem
My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert. — Eminem
If you wanna look good and not be bummy, girl you better give me that money
Aooow ... — Ol' Dirty Bastard
Aooow ... — Ol' Dirty Bastard
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
— Teju Cole
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
My whole darn future was on the line.
I created a brand new sensation
Through my mind and the whole darn nation ... — Sylvia Robinson
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
I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want. — Aceyalone
Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans ...
— Dana Gould
The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
— Lindsey Stirling
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
As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
— Zendaya
This one's for you, and I truly hope you hear me,
Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey. — Heavy D
Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey. — Heavy D
I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.
— Donnie Lewis
Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.
— LeCrae
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
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
— Michael Rapaport
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
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
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
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
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 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
And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on. — Snoop Dogg
Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards! — Ghostface Killah
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards! — Ghostface Killah
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
Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop.
I interrupt your little session ... and wreck shop. — Bumpy Knuckles
I interrupt your little session ... and wreck shop. — Bumpy Knuckles
I shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip. - AC/DC
— Stephen King
Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
— Jeff Foxworthy
It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.
— SpaceGhostPurrp
Never let no one know how much dough you hold.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
— Afrika Bambaataa
Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless,
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace! — Ludacris
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace! — Ludacris
I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass
Just to disrupt the misery of history class. — MC Paul Barman
Just to disrupt the misery of history class. — MC Paul Barman
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
— Obie Trice
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
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
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
Leaning to the side but you can't speed through;
2 miles an hour so everybody sees you. — DJ Jazzy Jeff
2 miles an hour so everybody sees you. — DJ Jazzy Jeff
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
Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.
— David Foster Wallace
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
Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz.
— Slaine
It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage ...
Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. — Ghostface Killah
Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. — Ghostface Killah
I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.
— Jim Gaffigan
He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe's belly.
— Jill Shalvis
When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
— Emmanuel Jal
Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up ...
Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up. — Tupac Shakur
Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up. — Tupac Shakur
They say you're nobody til somebody kills you
But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody — Lil' Wayne
But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody — Lil' Wayne
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
— Don Cornelius
When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.
— Mac Miller
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
Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.
— Wilson Pickett
We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y
Only death can cure the hip dilettante.
— Gilbert Sorrentino
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
— Jay-Z
When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane ...
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!' — Big Daddy Kane
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!' — Big Daddy Kane
He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size,
I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide. — Slimkid3
I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide. — Slimkid3
I love weed so much I tried to marry juana
— Lil' Wayne
I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.
— Luther Campbell
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
— Randy Pausch
It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
— KRS-One
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
I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn — Tash
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
— Nikki Giovanni