Hips Quotes - Page 5

• How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Yellow, White, Hip Hop

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• As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

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• Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

  Kid Cudi

  Beautiful, Artist, Rapper

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• Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Intelligent, Boxing

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• In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Eye, Body

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• If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

  Michael Winslow

  Art, Blessing, Eggs

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

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• People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Rocks, Ideas, Space

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• I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

  Mike Tyson

  Suicide, Fun, Real

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique. And they get real sidetracked trying to think like everyone else. They don't realize that you have to motivate yourself to do things you want to do. Some people just like going along for the ride. And those are the kind of people I don't get along with too well.

  Ric Ocasek

  Real, Thinking, People

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• My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Depression, Moving, Daddy

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

  Kanye West

  Book, Kids, Long

  Interview with DJ Booth, djbooth.net.

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• Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Men, Listening Ear

  Interview with DJ Booth, djbooth.net.

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• Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

  DJ Shadow

  Cutting, Essence, Drawing

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• We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks. ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.

  RZA

  Real, Want Something, People

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• Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching is what bein an m.c. is all about. I wanted my intelligence to be heard in my lyrics..I wanted the pain to be felt...and the happiness i encountered. Bein an m.c. takes originality, style, imagination, delivery, intelligence and presence.

  Larry Bakersfield

  Witty, Pain, Expression

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• When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is this?" At that moment, I could've been written off. But I had to believe because I really love what I do. I'm passionate about it. If 12 million recognize it, that's beautiful. If 12,000 do, that's beautiful. But I'm always going to put my heart and soul in it and I'm going to shoot for the stars and go for the highest levels of recognition and creativity. I definitely doubted myself at the time. But it always come back to believing what I do.

  Common

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

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• Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

  Mos Def

  Hip Hop, Hops, Asks

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• Why is the world round?
  Why do the suckas bite?
  Why do the freaks come out at night?
  Why they paint Jesus white?
  I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws,
  Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.

  Lee Majors

  Jesus, Rap, Night

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• The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
  I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.

  Daniel Dumile

  Sex, Rap, Rocks

  "Song: Figure Of Speech (Album: Mr. Hood)". 1991.

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• The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip,
  Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Hip Hop, Lasts

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• Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop,
  The second a record was number one on the pop charts.
  But don't skip on the heart, it gotta start in the ghetto,
  Let no one forget about the hard part.

  MC Serch

  Rap, Heart, Ghetto

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• Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
  Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
  Where were you the day hip-hop died?
  Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Artist, Hip Hop

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• The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
  It's all contractual and about money makin'.

  Black Thought

  Rap, Hip Hop, Principles

  "Song: "What They Do" ("Illadelph Halflife")". 1996.

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• Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma.
  Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

  Cormega

  Karma, Drama, Rap

  Song: Journey, 2009

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