Pharoahe Monch Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror,
  Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer.
  The truth is that you ugly...
  Not on the outside, but in the inside;
  On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Errors, Mirrors

  Song: The Truth

• Squeeze 7cc's so I could see the seven seas,
  And CC all my friends so they could see what I was seeing...
  But what they saw was a despicable human being;
  So, I guess they just wasn't seeing what I was seeing.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Sea, Hip Hop

• Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
  See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
  My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Beach, Rap, Writing

• Love and hate, black and white,
  Right or wrong, who is right?
  Some smoke joints to anoint their brain
  To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Hate, Rap, Black And White

• Once I slapped a rapper with mace,
  Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait...
  I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Eye, Hip Hop

  Song: Rapid Eye Movement, 2014

• Truth had me up against the ropes
  And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Skills, Boxing

• It's like I'm married to the silencer,
  Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers.
  Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries,
  Put your snap back cap back, cap your capillaries.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Art, Rap, Divorce

• New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Witty, New York, Rap

  Song: Simon Says, Album: Internal Affairs

• I have a dream:
  One day we will get to the promised land.
  Then the president will be me,
  The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it!
  All wackness is now banned.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Dream, Rap, Government

• Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya:
  You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now.
  Block the music and the people out to admire the love,
  The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club.
  And like marijuana shotguns, let's blow this joint,
  It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Block, Rap, Blow

• The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip,
  Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Hip Hop, Lasts

• My mic is a Magnum.
  See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon.
  Man...we did it in the back of your Magnum;
  I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Men, Giving

• Cloned chickens walking around without heads,
  The food is contaminated, the water got lead in it.
  Population control, make the babies sick,
  All these RFID chips, RU-486...
  This is a war against consciousness,
  Controlling your soul, sort of a psychological dictatorship.
  And we are on the front lines,
  Guilty as charged if intellect is a crime.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Baby, War, Rap

• Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Men, Listening Ear

  Interview with DJ Booth, djbooth.net.

• There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Circles, Ties

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Hip Hop, Soul, Hips

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• 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

  Beer, Hip Hop, Important

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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