Quotes about Hip Hop Music

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music. Votes: 4

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry. Votes: 4

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music. Votes: 4

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. Votes: 2

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. Votes: 2

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music. Votes: 2

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience. Votes: 2

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years. Votes: 2

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. Votes: 2

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. Votes: 2

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music. Votes: 2

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Votes: 2

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. Votes: 2

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. Votes: 2

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles. Votes: 2

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop. Votes: 2

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. Votes: 2

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly. Votes: 2

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. Votes: 2

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend! Votes: 2

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands. Votes: 2

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. Votes: 2

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white. Votes: 2

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it. Votes: 2

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music. Votes: 2

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age. Votes: 2

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last. Votes: 2

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society. Votes: 2

Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics. Votes: 2

When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big. Votes: 2

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste. Votes: 2

I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop. Votes: 2

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song. Votes: 2

I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful. Votes: 2

I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving. Votes: 2

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams. Votes: 2

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music. Votes: 2

I like hip-hop, I like yay music. Votes: 0

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music. Votes: 0

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. Votes: 0

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music. Votes: 0

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music. Votes: 0

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve. Votes: 0

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture. Votes: 0

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. Votes: 0

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks. Votes: 0

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing. Votes: 0

I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does. Votes: 0

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. Votes: 0

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music. Votes: 0

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. Votes: 0

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. Votes: 0

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. Votes: 0

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. Votes: 0

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. Votes: 0

I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music. Votes: 0

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop. Votes: 0

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. Votes: 0

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, Votes: 0

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice. Votes: 0

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody. Votes: 0

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music, Votes: 0

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music. Votes: 0

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. Votes: 0

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music. Votes: 0

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. Votes: 0

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people. Votes: 0

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music. Votes: 0

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. Votes: 0

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me. Votes: 0

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me. Votes: 0

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah. Votes: 0

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes. Votes: 0

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. Votes: 0

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around. Votes: 0

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything. Votes: 0

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs. Votes: 0

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community. Votes: 0

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it. Votes: 0

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move! Votes: 0

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. Votes: 0

I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that. Votes: 0

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that. Votes: 0

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you. Votes: 0

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways. Votes: 0

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. Votes: 0

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!' Votes: 0

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow. Votes: 0