Good Hip Hop Sayings

#1. The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

Amy Winehouse

#2. The cops drive by to do some more good deeds
A young black male spits a sunflower seed
in the air.

Dred Scott

#3. I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.

DJ Khaled

#4. What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

J-Ro

#5. If you wanna look good and not be bummy, girl you better give me that money
Aooow ...

Ol' Dirty Bastard

#6. I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

ASAP Rocky

#7. Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard; It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.

Curtis Jackson

#8. Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

Common

#9. I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

John Cena

#10. What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people.

Afrika Bambaataa

#11. Look you dead in the face
Now tell me how good does it taste

Rick Ross

#12. In this lifetime, you got two things:
Bad and good, and ain't nothin' in between.

Cold 187um

#13. Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.

Bakari Kitwana

#14. I'm real good at troubleshooting;
When there's trouble ... I start shooting.

Necro

#15. All I see is sissies in magazines smiling ...
Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent?
Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'?
And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?

Eminem

#16. Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch,
She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

Jay-Z

#17. The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.

Talib Kweli

#18. I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Carrie Brownstein

#19. I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Nikki Giovanni

#20. They say the good die young, so the bad die old.
Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.

Jon Connor

#21. Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

Conor Oberst

#22. The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.

Drew

#23. House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Chris Lowe

#24. Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.

Austin Carlile

#25. I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

Anton Du Beke

#26. I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school ... whatever ... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it's good, I'll listen to it.

Toby Keith

#27. I am learning how to dance hip-hop. I'm a good dancer when I dance salsa.

Stephanie Sigman

#28. The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

Afrika Bambaataa

#29. I wanna lie to you sometimes ... but I can't.
I wanna tell you that it's all good ... but it ain't.

Cee Lo Green

#30. I said it's all good and it's all in fun
Now get in the pit and try to love someone

Kid Rock

#31. Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop.
I interrupt your little session ... and wreck shop.

Bumpy Knuckles

#32. 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

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

Lupe Fiasco

#34. Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop,
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop,
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top,
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closin the shop

Phife Dawg

#35. A born terror, a rebel without a pause ...
Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

Shyheim

#36. I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

Yara Shahidi

#37. Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.

Flavor Flav

#38. Brain so good could've sworn you went to college

T.I.

#39. Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

Talib Kweli

#40. Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

Bo Burnham

#41. Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

Michael Eric Dyson

#42. I love hip-hop videos. It was not meant as disrespect. I used to watch those videos and think, "Are these guys kidding? They've got to be kidding!" But they're not and that in itself is what makes them good.

Chris Cunningham

#43. I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn't matter to me where it comes from - there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.

Stephen Marley

#44. Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses ... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general ... but it's been good.

SonReal

#45. It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

Nas

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

John Legend

#47. Damn it feels good to see people up on it.

Biz Markie