Top 69 Quotes About Hip Hop Life
#1. I never asked to be born, and death's no question.
The sun's still shining off the same old lessons,
Then why does life feel like an educated guess?
And my thoughts are like meals ... I'm a sucker for the seconds.
Amir Mohamed
#2. Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins,
And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness.
But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly
Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.
Termanology
#3. Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever.
Nas
#4. I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.
Gina Rodriguez
#5. You've got to realize that the world's a test,
You can only do your best and let Him do the rest.
You've got your life, and got your health,
So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.
Cee Lo Green
#6. 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
#7. You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#8. Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
#9. Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.
Roshon Fegan
#10. My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.
Lee Daniels
#11. Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It's something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious.
Curtis Jackson
#12. Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.
Rick Ross
#14. Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.
Kanye West
#15. Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
Russell Simmons
#16. When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.
Nas
#18. 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
Kendrick Lamar
#19. I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.
Tracy Morgan
#20. It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim,
Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them.
Stand up on your own,
And prove that you are grown,
Because the life that you save may be your own.
Lee Majors
#21. We live in a society created by an empire
That's based on terror ... welcome to the One World Era,
A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life,
That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.
Coolio
#22. When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?
Ike Turner
#23. The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.
K-Maro
#24. With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.
Lupe Fiasco
#25. Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it.
All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.
T.I.
#26. I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter
Kjiva
#27. Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.
T.I.
#28. Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
Dean Wareham
#29. Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
Yelawolf
#30. I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
Chuck D
#31. I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life.
Kjiva
#32. In this life ain't no happy endings;
Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.
J. Cole
#33. It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life.
Clive Davis
#34. Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I'm happy and proud of.
Heavy D
#35. There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.
John Mayer
#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. But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
Talib Kweli
#38. No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.
Frank Ocean
#39. You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.
Eminem
#40. Winner goes with the flow, History Maker against the flow
Kjiva
#41. All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper.
Q-Tip
#42. Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.
Nicole Richie
#43. Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.
Eminem
#44. The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.
Q-Tip
#45. Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'
Nigel Lythgoe
#46. I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.
Tinashe
#47. Everything has a price ...
No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life.
I understood later that it's all about paper,
Everything has a fee in the land of the free.
O.C.
#48. Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.
Damon Dash
#49. Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.
Machine Gun Kelly
#50. Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.
Sadat X
#51. Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
Mos Def
#52. When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.
Drake
#53. No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.
Mac Miller
#54. That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.
Machine Gun Kelly
#55. I've never had a dream in my life,
Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued.
I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done.
So I've been the dream I wanted to be since Day One.
Aesop Rock
#56. Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Here today and gone tomorrow ... just like that.
E-40
#57. Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.
F. Gary Gray
#58. You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
Talib Kweli
#59. Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.
Wale
#60. I never let the worst things in life get the best of me.
So take these testes and, ummm ... open sesame.
King Sun
#61. Life is love, heartache and strain,
Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.
O.C.
#63. Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.
Alex Ebert
#64. My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.
Ras Kass
#65. When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.
Mac Miller
#66. Why should i expect yes cos everything i get no
Kjiva
#67. Life is a gamble, we scramble for money,
I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.
Prodigy
#68. I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
Mos Def
#69. I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.
Emily VanCamp
