Top 100 Quotes About Rap And Hip Hop
#1. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
Cameron Crowe
#2. Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.
Max Casella
#3. Y'all mythological niggas is comical,
The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you ...
And embalmin' in your crew, too.
With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do.
Keith Murray
#4. Do you ever think about when you outta here?
Record deal and video, outta here!?
Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?
KRS-One
#5. The world is full of bullshitters,
Liars, and triers and quitters,
Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's ...
And everybody in your business.
Aceyalone
#6. Life is love, heartache and strain,
Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.
O.C.
#7. The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.
Daniel Dumile
#8. When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.
T.F. Hodge
#9. War's extremely serious and it saddens me.
Masta Killa
#10. When it came to hip-hop ... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.
Charlie Day
#11. The line between playing to win and sin is thin,
But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste.
I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.
Cee Lo Green
#12. I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.
Nelly Furtado
#13. Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird.
And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh ...
Cam'ron
#14. I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.
Talib Kweli
#15. Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice:
It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.
Q-Tip
#16. To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every phase went through changing up their dress styles and all that, but since Run DMC came out, it's been baggy jeans.
DMX
#17. You can't take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen
Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes.
Ryan Montgomery
#18. And I'm telling you now the frustration
The future's facing from the anger in the nation.
C.L. Smooth
#19. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
Noel Gallagher
#20. Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Mos Def
#21. People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.
Chuck D
#22. Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul,
And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold ...
Beanie Sigel
#23. I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's ...
Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.
Ras Kass
#24. 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
Lupe Fiasco
#25. I love ... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.
Rachel Platten
#26. I never live alone,
I never walk alone.
My posse's always ready
And they're waitin' in my zone.
Chuck D
#27. 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
#28. Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky:
R: Ravishing, I: Impress,
C: Courageous or Careless,
K: for the Kangols which I've got,
That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?
Slick Rick
#29. You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.
King Sun
#30. There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing
If my burglar alarm starts ringing
The Notorious B.I.G.
#31. Once I slapped a rapper with mace,
Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait ...
I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.
Pharoahe Monch
#32. As I turned around to receive my injection,
I said, 'Next time I'll use some protection.'
If I see another girl and I get an erection ...
I'm walking in the other direction!
Kool Moe Dee
#33. Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex,
I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.
Cappadonna
#34. The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim,
And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em.
They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'
Nas
#35. 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
#36. And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie ...
I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi.
Big L
#37. Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Here today and gone tomorrow ... just like that.
E-40
#38. I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.
Tash
#39. I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond ...
And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs.
Pimp C
#40. I never let the worst things in life get the best of me.
So take these testes and, ummm ... open sesame.
King Sun
#41. Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
KRS-One
#42. That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks,
So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.
Consequence
#43. I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.
Corbin Bleu
#44. Look past the garbage, over the trains,
Under the ruins, through the remains,
Around the crime and pollution,
And tell me ... where I fit in?
Grandmaster Caz
#45. Day in and day out we do the same thing,
Tryina find the joy in our repetition.
Always complainin' about the routine and the mundane.
But let me stop to remind y'all bout one thing:
Come hell or high water you can count on the sun
Always shinin' in its untamed glory.
Phonte
#46. Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.
Curtis Jackson
#47. He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size,
I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide.
Slimkid3
#48. Comin' from the school of hard knocks,
Some perpetrate ... they drink Clorox.
Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.
Chuck D
#49. It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin.
Everybody happy, hair still nappy,
Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy ...
Snoop Dogg
#50. I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives,
A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives,
Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.
Eminem
#51. For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about African American history, politics and even relationships: all of which would be missed if society merely focused on the "hook" and ignored the influence.
Carlos Wallace
#52. My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.
Tina Yothers
#53. It's weak to speak and blame somebody else
... When you destroy yourself.
Chuck D
#54. I scored 1.1 on my SAT,
And still push a whip with a right and left AC.
Redman
#55. Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-One
#56. This treadmill lifestyle ain't workin for me ...
It's from ya crib to ya lab to ya job to make a profit,
And at the day's end you still got nothing accomplished.
Phonte
#57. Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop.
I interrupt your little session ... and wreck shop.
Bumpy Knuckles
#58. Most rappers these days is actors,
And I can't keep watching the same movie.
Mick Jenkins
#59. Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle,
Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel ... and staying humble.
Pete Rock
#60. I call wild niggas together like Cyrus,
And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus.
Bumpy Knuckles
#61. Mix me with violence, blend me with peace,
Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.
Puff Daddy
#62. True originator, innovator and creator,
Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.
One Be Lo
#63. Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk?
It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'
Sean Price
#64. Rappers act so wild, and love to profile,
Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.
Big Daddy Kane
#65. Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me ...
Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief,
And got his ass directin' traffic in the heat for a week.
RZA
#66. I got lots of love for my crew, that is;
No love for them other crews and rival kids.
All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is,
And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.
Prodigy
#67. We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.
Q-Tip
#68. I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts,
Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.
Dres
#69. I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.
Matthew Morrison
#70. Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.
Sadat X
#71. I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect.
It's the principle of it.
O.C.
#72. As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
Ice-T
#73. I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
Jackie Collins
#74. They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash,
Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.
Erick Sermon
#75. By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
Michael Eric Dyson
#76. 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
#77. I'm your idol, the highest title, Numero Uno,
I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know,
And understand, I got the gift of speech,
And it's a blessin, so listen to the lesson I preach ...
Special Ed
#78. I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope,
Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP.
Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap.
Kool Keith
#79. All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper.
Q-Tip
#80. I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!
Josh Young
#81. Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor,
Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.
Immortal Technique
#82. Whether or not you agreed with the group's incendiary style, one thing most people will agree on: N.W.A had a deep, trans-formative and lasting effect on hip hop ideology.
Carlos Wallace
#83. It was Saturday night and I was feelin kinda funny,
Gold around my neck, pockets full of money.
Schoolly D
#84. I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
John F. Kerry
#85. Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.
Ice-T
#86. God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,
Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.
We try to cry, but still they all die,
I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.
Tupac Shakur
#87. 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 ...
Kendrick Lamar
#88. I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.
LeCrae
#89. I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves,
I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets.
That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.
Killer Mike
#90. I got a letter from the government the other day
I opened and read it ... it said they were suckers.
Chuck D
#91. But until then, I'ma shine to the last sin,
Resurrect through the birth of my son, and live again.
Intelligent Hoodlum
#93. Abraham Lincoln got shot and died,
Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.
Too $hort
#94. I find rap, dance, and hip-hop vaguely terrifying. I don't have the right clothes to be into them, and it all seems a bit intense. I file these genres along with heavy metal and speed metal under people who would kill, then eat me.
Caitlin Moran
#95. I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown:
I was humpin' around and jumpin' around!
The Notorious B.I.G.
#96. Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it.
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.
Redman
#97. Satisfaction, I have the right tactics ...
And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.
Q-Tip
#98. Why is the world round?
Why do the suckas bite?
Why do the freaks come out at night?
Why they paint Jesus white?
I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws,
Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.
Lee Majors
#99. Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back,
Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.
Shyheim
#100. He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
Michael Eric Dyson
