Hip Hop Quotations | Page 5

I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth.

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's like they just got a pair of new jeans..They just started wearing them below their belt 2 months ago.

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees

Consequence is no coincidence.

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and they wanna know Oh oh oh oh yeah If you are what you say you are Then have no fear

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour

They say the streets is a demon in a dress, Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath

For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.

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.

I used to use hip hop hooks as a way to attract young people and get their attention and I knew they were familiar with the lyrics. A big part about learning is really making connections so in telling young people...

Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

I told her, "I got the chips if you got the dip." She said when I dip, that I better be equipped and keep my hand on her hips...

Welcome to Atlanta Jack and hammers and vogues Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes Adolescents packin the fo'

Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless, Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace!

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

Her bikini - small; heels - tall She said she liked the ocean.

MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em, And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em. I'm the best takin' out all rookies, So forget Oreos...eat Cool J cookies.

I'm cold gettin' paid cause Rick said so.

Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop

Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.

I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.

Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that?

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

Bend over to the front touch toes Back dat ass up and down and get low (get low)

Take dem shoes off your teeth and stop running your mouth.

Stop hating on a n*gga that is a weak emotion, the lady of a n*gga.

I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop

They say you're nobody til somebody kills you But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody

R.I.P. (Rest in pussy).

I know the game is crazy, its more crazy than its ever been, im married to that crazy b*tch call me kevin federline

Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack.

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged

Call me what you want b*tch, call me on my sidekick Never answer when it's private, d*mn I hate a shy b*tch Don't you hate a shy b*tch? Yeah I ate a shy b*tch She ain't shy no more, she changed her name to me b*tch hahahaha, yeah, n*gga that's my b*tch So when she ask for the money, when you through don't be surprised b*tch.

I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up.

She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all"

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that I'm gonna be bigger than Wal-Mart.

Slavery is more mental than anything

Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk with so much emphasis Ooh they so sensitive

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait.

Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.

Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

It seem like everybody dress tight now, And I just want my credit.

Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know.

I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop.

Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep

Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper.

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists...