Q-Tip Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

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  Teenager, Rap, Daddy

  "Excursions". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), September 24, 1991.

• know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
  You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'.
  And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
  Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff...
  We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
  All adversities, so we can get through fast.

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  Stress, Rap, Moving

• All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

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  Rap, Hip Hop, Paper

  "Peace, Prosperity And Paper". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Malik Taylor, October 25, 1996.

• I am recognizing that the voice inside my head
  Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else
  Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

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  Rap, Voice, Hip Hop

• We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
  Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

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  Rap, Snakes, Hip Hop

• I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak,
  Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

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  Uncles, Rap, Swings

• And even though we both fly
  Give each other space and not the evil eye

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  Eye, Space, Evil

  Song: Vivrant Thing, Album: Amplified

• One step at a time, a man walked on the moon.
  One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'

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  Rap, Moon, Men

  Song: Life Is Better, Album: The Renaissance, 2008

• Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

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  Rap, Hip Hop, Pops

  "Check the Rhime". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), Roger Ball, Malcolm Duncan, Steve Ferrone, Alan Gorrie, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Onnie McIntyre, Minnie Riperton, Richard Rudolph, Hamish Stuart, Malik Taylor and Leon Ware, September 9, 1991.

• You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow,
  See you gotta accept that's how things go.
  Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow,
  But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.

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  Rain, Rap, Blow

• Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice:
  It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

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  Nice, Rap, Hip Hop

• How far must you go to gain respect? Um...
  Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own.
  Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.

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  Crazy, Rap, Simple

• So concisely, musically we are the herb
  So sit back and light me.
  Inhale...
  My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.

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  Rap, Light, Whales

• There's divinity within because we come from the divine,
  A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time:
  When the wind blows, and the world turns,
  And the rain drops, and the baby cries,
  And the bird flies, and the ground quake,
  And the stars gleam.

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  Baby, Stars, Rain

• Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
  Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep

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  Rap, Sleep, Hip Hop

• We got to mediate our greedy levels,
  Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

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  Rap, Hip Hop, Lust

• Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

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  Crazy, Rap, Hip Hop

  "Song: "Bonita Applebum" ("People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm")". 1990.

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