Hips Quotes - Page 29

• Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

  M.I.A.

  Country, Artist, Hip Hop

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.

  Ewan McGregor

  Party, Hip Hop, Waiting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it never really got its just due. Now, hip-hop seems to be getting that recognition and is more widely accepted, which is great.

  Adrian Younge

  Long, Hip Hop, Culture

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Thinking, Hip Hop, True Life

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hip Hop, Culture, Grew Up

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Hero, Ideas

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Struggle, Adversity, Artist

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Hip Hop, Emcee

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Hip Hop, Comic

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.

  Richard Pryor

  White, People, Calling

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

  Gene Weingarten

  Hip Hop, Bless, Hops

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Every once in a while I'll say something...I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that." I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work." She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.

  Dar Williams

  Couple, Thinking, Careers

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.

  Phife Dawg

  Thinking, Diversity, Hip Hop

  Source: djbooth.net

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• New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.

  Phife Dawg

  New York, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: djbooth.net

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• New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.

  Phife Dawg

  Christian, New York, Growing Up

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.

  DJ Khaled

  Hip Hop, Soul, Jazz

  Source: elitedaily.com

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• Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

  Ellen Bass

  Cracks, Tiles, Bathroom

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so he had some friends that practiced in Boston. So, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who worked in the firm. And the young lawyer was married to a public defender. So I would hang out with them, and I could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised.

  Judd Nelson

  Senior, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would go to trials a lot in Boston, as best I could. And it's incredible that, like, lawyers that had a good case weren't dramatic at all. Lawyers that had a horrible case would sing and dance and do whatever it took to convince the jury or the judge that this guy was innocent. So that was a cool thing to see because that made me believe that what the script [of From The Hip] was doing was totally believable. Now, maybe not ordinary. But it could happen.

  Judd Nelson

  Believe, Boston, Judging

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hero, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.

  Wyclef Jean

  Hip Hop, Done, Hops

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I also think that there's a little peer pressure. They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered - I don't know what the word is - in, hip, whatever, with that bunch. I think time will take care of some of this as it is revealed that [Donald] Trump is not what they think.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Did the record [Danger] do well? I believe it did what it should have. It showed the hip hop community that Tony Sunshine is doing well and looking great.

  Tony Sunshine

  Believe, Sunshine, Should Have

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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