Hip Hop Quotes - Page 11

• House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rap, Rocks, House

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• People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rapper, People, Trying

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• The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Sound And Music, Different, Hips

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• Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

  Andre Benjamin

  Art, Albums, Hips

  "Fine and dandy". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

  Mary J. Blige

  Block, Teenager, Party

  Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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• As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

  Bono

  Ghetto, Rocks, Hips

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• I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

  Jo Brand

  Artist, Names, Hips

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• I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Doe

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• I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

  Luke Bryan

  Girl, Country, Song

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• Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

  Kobe Bryant

  Peppers, Hips, Hot

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• There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, People, Racist

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• It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Thinking, Symphony

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• I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

  Nick Cannon

  Play, Musician, Fields

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• I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

  Tom Colicchio

  Hips, Stage, Hops

  "What We Learned from Tom Colicchio's New Show" by Eric Vilas-boas, www.esquire.com. October 25, 2012.

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• What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

  Steve Coogan

  Hips, Hops, Dance Music

  "Questions for Steve Coogan". Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

  Mos Def

  Reflection, Jamaica, Two

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• I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

  Mos Def

  Running, Writing, Ambition

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

  Eminem

  Hips, Hops, Boast

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Artist, Mind

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Rocks, Romance, Rock N Roll

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• I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, Thinking, Race

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• Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

  Jamie Foxx

  Artist, Hot, Doe

  "Comic-Con: Jamie Foxx Talks DJANGO UNCHAINED, His Toughest Scene to Shoot, Tarantino’s Musical Dialogue and Doing a Song for the Soundtrack". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

  Al Franken

  Country, Mean, Hips

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• I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

  Noel Gallagher

  Rap, People, Enemy

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• My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

  Herbie Hancock

  Movement, Eras, Firsts

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