Hops Quotes - Page 10

• What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Passion, Oddities, Hip Hop

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.

  Neil Drumming

  Hip Hop, Hips, Grew Up

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.

  Saul Williams

  Wall, Hero, Hip Hop

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

  Saul Williams

  Hip Hop, Connections, Hips

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

  Saul Williams

  Kids, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

  Saul Williams

  Powerful, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing. But, at the same time, rap is a simple, direct and strong musical language.

  Shahin Najafi

  Strong, Rap, Simple

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

  Killer Mike

  Motivation, Rap, Hip Hop

  Interview with Eric Ducker, believermag.com. July 2014.

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• There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Circles, Ties

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Hip Hop, Soul, Hips

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Beer, Hip Hop, Important

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Laughter, Dancing

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Aug 21, 2015

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• And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

  Kris Kidd

  Weed, Sweet, Missing

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• Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on “Christbait Rising” which Broadrick was quoted as saying, “It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim”.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Hip Hop, Sound

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• I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

  Sxip Shirey

  Doors, Play, Hip Hop

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• I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.

  Greg Cipes

  Block, Two, Way

  "Michelangelo Knows Best – An Interview with Greg Cipes". Interview with Dak, www.wired.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

  Danny Masterson

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Danny Masterson...dazed & confused". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.

  Chuck D

  People, Hip Hop, Hustle

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• It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

  Chuck D

  Hip Hop, Hips, Genre

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• The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Rocks, Dna, Rock And Roll

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• Whether or not I can get an interview from hip-hop media, that's not going to effect whether or not I can go on tour in Asia and Europe and see all of these different places and experiences.

  Le1f

  Media, Europe, Hip Hop

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like.

  Rapsody

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Sex

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• I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

  Axl Rose

  Hip Hop, Nails, Nine

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• I feel like I changed hip-hop.

  Big Sean

  Hip Hop, Hips, Changed

  "Big Sean addresses Ludacris Over his 'Supa Dupa' Flow?" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 24, 2011.

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