Hips Quotes - Page 22

• We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death.

  Immortal Technique

  Hip Hop, Rhyming, Hardcore

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it.

  Snoop Dogg

  Attitude, Names, Hip Hop

  "Snoop Dogg/Lion: ‘The ‘Turbo’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. July 31, 2013.

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• African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.

  David Simon

  Loss, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: progressive.org

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• I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Rap, Cities

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

  Talib Kweli

  Zero, Essence, People

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.

  Talib Kweli

  Country, Inspiration, Hip Hop

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Australia, Hip Hop

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

  Talib Kweli

  Appreciate, Hip Hop, Way

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• I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Simple, Trying Different Things

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• Nobody's gonna ever like all my music but if your talking about the core hip-hop fans that like hardcore rap, they're still gonna feel some of my stuff cuz I rap hard a lot of the time.

  SonReal

  Rap, Talking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

  SonReal

  Voice, Hip Hop, Lessons

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

  SonReal

  Song, Rap, Struggle

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• A couple years ago it was really hard for me to sing, because there's so much pressure in hip-hop to be a certain way. My biggest thing right now is doing me, because I'm not like other rappers.

  SonReal

  Couple, Rapper, Years

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist on things, and that's what that song is all about. It's about putting a twist on stereotypes.

  SonReal

  Song, Wall, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.

  SonReal

  People, Hip Hop, Singing

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It's going to be a free online mixtape. I think it's going to get some crazy buzz. We have a few marketing campaigns, that I think are going to make it pull through.

  SonReal

  Crazy, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Feet, Hands, Feelings

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• No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

  Wyclef Jean

  Essence, Hip Hop, Community

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• The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.

  Kool Keith

  Mean, Artist, Technology

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• But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

  Talib Kweli

  Children, Things In Life, Hip Hop

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• I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.

  Tommy Lee

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Stuff

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• I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

  Busta Rhymes

  Successful, Hip Hop, Tongue

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• I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

  Mike Shinoda

  Couple, Rapper, Years

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• If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

  Mike Shinoda

  Writing, Kids, Who I Am

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• I respect everything H3 has already accomplished and respect everything he's trying to get done. We're building a real HOME for the Hip Hop generation complete with all the things we love to do. But it's really about creating educational opportunity and good jobs and that's where Team H3 will prove to be unbeatable.

  Juelz Santana

  Jobs, Real, Educational

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