M.I.A. Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• I fly like paper, get high like planes
  If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name

  M.I.A.

  Names, Hip Hop, Getting High

  Song: Paper Planes, Album: Kala

• I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

  M.I.A.

  Weed, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

• What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

  M.I.A.

  Running, Creativity, Hip Hop

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Rapper, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

• Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

  M.I.A.

  Country, Artist, Hip Hop

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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