Real Hip Hop Quotes

#1. We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.

RZA

#2. I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

Ice-T

#3. The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.

Todd Boyd

#4. Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt
Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump ...
Lala la la lala la laaaa

B-Real

#5. 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

#6. Time is real, we can't rewind it ...
Out of everybody I met, who told the truth?
Time did.

Common

#7. I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Emmanuel Jal

#8. Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.

Tom Spanbauer

#9. My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Mike Mills

#10. My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

Meredith Brooks

#11. The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

Kip Winger

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

John Mayer

#13. I'll take whatever I want, tiger.

Eve Jagger

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

Necro

#15. It ain't about keeping real, it's about keeping it right.

Jeff Chain

#16. 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

#17. Real slow hits from the bong ...
Make me feel like Cheech,
And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

B-Real

#18. Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

Jeru The Damaja

#19. I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

Eminem

#20. I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real
When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal

The Notorious B.I.G.

#21. There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

Yelawolf

#22. In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.

Nick Cannon

#23. So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.

Kanye West

#24. While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Bell Hooks

#25. These soliloquies explain our people's lack of stability
You keepin it real, but ain't got a clue what reality really be
See the diameter of your knowledge
Is the circumference of your activity

Ras Kass

#26. I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

Ike Turner

#27. Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.

Bernie Mcgill

#28. Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

George Clinton

#29. 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

#30. Squirrelpaw!" Brambleclaw's

Erin Hunter

#31. So many programs you watch on the sofa,
But the real program sit on top of your shoulders.

One Be Lo

#32. I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#33. As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

Fritz Sauckel

#34. It's for real though, let's connect, politic ... ditto!
We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases,
Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.

Raekwon

#35. Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

Grandmaster Flash

#36. That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.

Machine Gun Kelly

#37. How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
Understand where I'm coming from?

B-Real