Hips Quotes - Page 26

• The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.

  Ice Cube

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I never go to the Grammys. I just never go. I don't know if I care enough, and I went because my son wanted to go, and they asked us to present Best Hip Hop Group of the Year. You know, we had two records from Compton in there, and it was just like a cool thing to do, and to do with your son, and it was just cool. But we was the first award up, so after I did my thing I just jumped in the car and came on back home.

  Ice Cube

  Home, Son, Years

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.

  Ice Cube

  Teacher, Thinking, People

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that?

  Justin Vernon

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Shining

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

  Caroline Polachek

  Artist, Hip Hop, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

  Questlove

  Hip Hop, Musician, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

  Lykke Li

  Hip Hop, Biggie, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

  Jack Tatum

  Talking, Hip Hop, Hops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

  Gold Panda

  Confused, Teenager, Jeans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

  Gold Panda

  Moving, Hip Hop, Sampling

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.

  Pedro Winter

  Hip Hop, Skateboarding, Littles

  "Pedro Winter/Ed Banger". Interview with Heiko Hoffmann, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2008.

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• Well, at home, I’m in sweatpants, I’m not wearing any makeup, and I’m not standing with my hand on my hip while smiling. I try to be honest in interviews, but obviously you have to be careful about everything you say and do when you’re being recorded. I’m much more comfortable and quieter at home.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Home, Makeup, Hands

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. May 12, 2015.

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• Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Interesting, Hip Hop, Hops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel like this thing [that] we're rocking back and forth like we're stuck in a snow bank and we all sort of know it. I feel like people are getting less and less pretentious and less and less hip - hopefully.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Snow, Pretentious

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

  Paul Banks

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Tails

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenager, Long, Hip Hop

  "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

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• All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenage, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

  Casey Spooner

  Diversity, Interesting, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

  Prefuse 73

  Hip Hop, Community, Musical

  "Prefuse 73". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

  A-Trak

  Kids, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

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• That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.

  A-Trak

  Fun, Heart, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

  A-Trak

  Hip Hop, Labels, Hops

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

  Nas

  Kids, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

  LeCrae

  Christian, Artist, Roots

  Source: www.wbur.org

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