Hips Quotes - Page 34

• I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Steve Harvey Says Hip-hop Must Stop Disrespecting Women". www.mtv.com. September 06, 2012.

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• Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

  Steve Harvey

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Hip Hop, Crowds, Chance

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Soul

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• I'm a big hip hop fan.

  Jonah Hill

  Hip Hop, Fans, Bigs

  "Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cancer, Pneumonia, Blood

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• I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

  Vanilla Ice

  Class, White, America

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 6, 1998.

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• More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

  Vanilla Ice

  Thinking, White, People

  Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

  LL Cool J

  Hip Hop, Limits, Accepting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

  LL Cool J

  Kids, Positivity, Hip Hop

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• Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 6, 2005.

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• Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

  Marc Jacobs

  Nice, Giving, Trying

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• To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

  Etta James

  Country, Listening, Want

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• Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

  Jam Master Jay

  Rap, Reality, Talking

  "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.

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• Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.

  Lynn Johnston

  Heart, College, World

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

  Quincy Jones

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hops

  "Q&A with Quincy Jones". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1997.

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• My son is a hip-hop producer.

  Quincy Jones

  Son, Hip Hop, Hops

  Los Angeles Times interview, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1997.

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• Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

  Jay-Z

  Music, Thinking, Race

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• That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

  Jay-Z

  Fun, Party, Nightlife

  "Letter to the President" (Video), www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

  Jay-Z

  Hip Hop, Culture, Way

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• Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

  Jay-Z

  People, Hip Hop, Wealth

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• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Jay-Z Named President of Def Jam Records". www.foxnews.com. December 09, 2004.

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• I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Opportunity, Careers

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• I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

  John F. Kerry

  Rap, Anger, Thinking

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