Common Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

  Common

  Appreciation, Player, Rapper

  Song: The 6th Sense, Album: Like Water For Chocolate, 2000

• I met this girl when I was ten years old,
  And what I loved most she had so much soul.
  She was old school, when I was just a shorty
  Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me.

  Common

  Girl, Rap, School

  Song: I Used To Love H. E. R, Album: Resurrection, 1994

• Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

  Common

  Rap, Hip Hop, Fronts

• I love black thighs, you sisters better realize That real hair and real eyes get real guys. So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind.

  Common

  Real, Rap, Eye

• Time is real, we can't rewind it...
  Out of everybody I met, who told the truth?
  Time did.

  Common

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

• Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

  Common

  Motivational, Eye, Sky

• I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail.
  In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.
  My eyes see the glory, and well,
  The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!"

  Common

  Dream, Believe, Rap

• I start thinking:
  How many souls hip-hop has affected?
  How many dead folks this art resurrected?
  How many nations this culture connected?
  Who am I to judge one's perspective?

  Common

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  Song: The 6th Sense, Album: Like Water For Chocolate, 2000

• I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack,
  And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap.

  Common

  Rap, Tired, People

• I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

  Common

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Song: So Sweet, Album: The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011

• I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

  Common

  Rap, Hip Hop, Dry

  Song: Resurrection '95, Album: Resurrection, 1994

• Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button.
  Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction,
  How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

  Common

  Rap, Oil, Hip Hop

  Common, Adam Bradley (2011). “One Day It'll All Make Sense”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

• Even through the unseen, I know that God watches,
  From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us.

  Common

  Dream, Kings, Rap

  Song: The Believer, Album: The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011

• I sit and think with a drink about how I'm gonna win.

  Common

  Rap, Thinking, Winning

• When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is this?" At that moment, I could've been written off. But I had to believe because I really love what I do. I'm passionate about it. If 12 million recognize it, that's beautiful. If 12,000 do, that's beautiful. But I'm always going to put my heart and soul in it and I'm going to shoot for the stars and go for the highest levels of recognition and creativity. I definitely doubted myself at the time. But it always come back to believing what I do.

  Common

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

• One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

  Common

  Powerful, Hip Hop, Elements

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you gotta know the roots to really grow. It's like knowing your parents, it's like knowing your culture, so you could be proud of that culture and take it to the world.

  Common

  Children, Thinking, Roots

• Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

  Common

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  "A Chat with Common Interview: Adimu Colon". Interview with Adimu Colon, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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