Quotes About Underground Hip Hop

#1. A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

Travie McCoy

#2. There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

Zadie Smith

#3. Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

Phyllis Chesler

#4. Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

Salman Khan

#5. Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Cardinal Richelieu

#6. Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Joyce Meyer

#7. I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, 'Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good.' Hopefully it balances out.

Demetri Martin

#8. Aging is a chance to make what was good, great; and what was never so good, better.

Amy Bloom

#9. I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.

Denzel Whitaker

#10. The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.

El-P

#11. It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

Talib Kweli

#12. You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance
You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons

Xzibit

#13. There is only one real sin: being different. i'll be damned.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#14. Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

Theophilus London

#15. Every time I make a "Mission" movie or other films, people kind of look at me and go, "Well, now what? What's next?" I think there's always going to be another mountain. I think there's something always in store.

Tom Cruise

#16. As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

Moby

#17. For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf.
For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth.
The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic ...

J-Live

#18. Mixtape legend, underground kings ... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

Drake

#19. That you may be beloved, be amiable.

Ovid

#20. Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

Talib Kweli

#21. The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Russell Simmons

#22. If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.

R.A. Torrey

#23. One day my best friend said to me 'Jess, you rock a lot of polka dots' and that was the deal breaker, now we're mortal enemies

Zooey Deschanel