Hops Quotes - Page 16

• To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Dream, Empowering, Hip Hop

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• That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

  Dave Koz

  Beautiful, Rap, Rocks

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.

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• There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, sending people to other planets. It's harder than we were aware a few decades ago. I think there used to be this widespread imagination, this idea that we'd eventually just hop in a rocket and go to Mars.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Thinking, Light, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.

  Boots Riley

  Oakland, Ideas, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

  Boots Riley

  Rocks, People, Hip Hop

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

  Boots Riley

  Party, Hip Hop, Messages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really hands on with Morgan & Andrew while writing and producing the record.

  Nomi Ruiz

  Writing, Hands, Hip Hop

  "Jessica 6's Nomi". Interview with Sam Blodgett, brightestyoungthings.com. April 8, 2011.

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• There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

  Bela Fleck

  Crazy, Hip Hop, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

  Bela Fleck

  Hip Hop, Together, Jam

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.

  Sean Kingston

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Different

  "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

  Corbin Bleu

  Rap, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "New Corbin Bleu Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2007.

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• McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

  Chuck D

  Song, Kings, Teenage

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey to Australia, now has tons of hip-hop artists. The music and artistry have moved way faster than the corporatization of the music. You do need organization and opportunity for these artists to express themselves, and I don't think it has to come from a corporate co-signing.

  Chuck D

  Country, Rap, Opportunity

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.

  Mark Ronson

  Writing, Mean, Rapper

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

  Stephen W. Thompson

  Years, Hip Hop, Records

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that when they get on track and talk about whatever they're talking about, they have supreme confidence. That's pretty much what you need to have on the field. I like the way they approach their music, they feel like no one can touch them.

  Nate Burleson

  Talking, Track, Hip Hop

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• You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  Mistake, Inspiration, People

  "This New Film Will Change the Way You Think About the Black Panthers". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.

  Moshe Kasher

  Growing Up, Kids, Home

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back to that. Marc Maron had me on WTF making fun of me about that when I first opened for him. I had this very kind of hip-hop bravado to me, and I realized that now I've let some of that go in my stage presence, that maybe that was because I had dropped that completely from my life, and when I got onstage I sort of rekindled it. And I think now that it was perhaps a defense mechanism that was left over from those days, which I think is kind of interesting.

  Moshe Kasher

  Fun, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Growing Up, Nice

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I think I've been able to witness Canadian hip-hop get a lot more respect from our own people. I think some of the artists that came before me were doing their thing but lacked a strong next generation of artists to help them capitalize.

  JD Era

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.

  Zendaya

  Girl, Country, Heart

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

  Colin Munroe

  Kids, Hip Hop, Important

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• Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.

  Andy Bell

  People, Hip Hop, Hips

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• [My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

  Lissie

  People, Norway, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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