Hips Quotes - Page 20

• People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

  Erykah Badu

  People, Hip Hop, Hops

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

  Raekwon

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.

  Lotic

  Sexy, Hip Hop, Musical

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by tapping a bowl with a fork. I'm trying to compress all of my experiences all of the time.

  Lotic

  Track, Hip Hop, Listening

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

  Chuck D

  Voice, Government, Hip Hop

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

  Chuck D

  Hip Hop, Corporations, Hops

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• There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Beyoncé, Lil Wayne.

  Manika

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Musician

  "Manika Q&A". Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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• I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Black, Enemy, Desire

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• I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

  Ice T

  Girl, Gangsta, Rapper

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• A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads, Low Bridge Ahead. Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, Got stuck, huh? The truck driver says, No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas.

  Bill Engvall

  Bridges, Hands, Car

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• I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.

  Jenny Lewis

  Mom, Phones, Hip Hop

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• Let's all start wearing bolo ties, and when they become hip again, we'll all say we were kidding.

  Dana Gould

  Ties

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• Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans.

  Dana Gould

  Hoodies, Looks, Skis

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 29, 2012

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• Dave Rath is recovering. A month ago he had hip pocket replacement surgery.

  Andy Kindler

  Pockets, Months, Replacements

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• We're down in Mexico. It's for a bachelor party, so we go into a Mexican strip club... I go back with this woman down a murky hallway, and then without missing a beat - these ladies are all business - she goes, 'Go ahead, take out your dong.' 'I'm not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong? If you want to be hip to the lingo, they're not using the word dong up in the States.

  Al Madrigal

  Party, Mexican, Missing

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• According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!

  Felipe Esparza

  Children, Support, Hip Hop

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• Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

  J. B. Smoove

  Names, Hip Hop, Dancer

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• Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.

  Joell Ortiz

  Writing, Names, Hip Hop

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• I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.

  DJ Khaled

  Growing Up, Boys, Roots

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• I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took the dancehall culture and mixed it up with the hip-hop as well. I kept going, going, and I got real hot in the streets of Miami - you know, doing pirate radio - then ended up doing 99 Jamz, the big station out there.

  DJ Khaled

  Real, Boys, Jamaica

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• I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.

  Paul Smoker

  New York, Who I Am, Race

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• People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, College, People

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• I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.

  Toni Braxton

  Hip Hop, Here And There, Fans

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