Quotes about Hop

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now. Votes: 4

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: 4

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government. Votes: 3

Hip-Hop started out in the heart Votes: 3

Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it Votes: 3

Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack. Votes: 3

Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.. Votes: 3

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment Votes: 3

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop. Votes: 3

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live Votes: 3

Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again. Votes: 3

Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program. Votes: 3

It still feels like Hip Hop is in the early '80s on Broadway. Votes: 3

I think it's a beautiful thing how Hip Hop is received by the world. Votes: 3

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party. Votes: 3

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. Votes: 3

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture. Votes: 3

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.' Votes: 3

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture. Votes: 3

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. Votes: 3

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz. Votes: 3

The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll. I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul. Votes: 3

Jesus works on Sundays, Hop. Want a direct line, time to haul your biker ass to church. Votes: 3

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture. Votes: 3

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. Votes: 3

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them. Votes: 3

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash. Votes: 3

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself. Votes: 3

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years. Votes: 3

Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word. Votes: 3

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice. Votes: 3

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. Votes: 3

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: 3

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues. Votes: 3

What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America. Votes: 3

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. Votes: 3

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: 3

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. Votes: 3

I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows... Votes: 3

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents. Votes: 3

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. Votes: 3

We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays. Votes: 3

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now. Votes: 3

Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz. Votes: 3

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do. Votes: 3

I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop. Votes: 3

Hip Hop has its ups and downs but I'm gonna do my best to not necessarily bring that back but just remind people what they are forgetting about. Votes: 3

I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the streets to be first. Votes: 3

I had a really good time on the show [Sisterhood of Hip Hop]. Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know. Votes: 3

How much for the bottle, put it on my tab. Hop out like a model all them foreign tags. Get so drunk and high, I will have to call a cab. Votes: 3

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on. Votes: 3

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

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. Votes: 2

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. Votes: 2

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. Votes: 2

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer. Votes: 2

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. Votes: 2

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop. Votes: 2

For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop. Votes: 2

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: 2

If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall. Votes: 2

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it. Votes: 2

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.' Votes: 2

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet. Votes: 2

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.' Votes: 2

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union. Votes: 2

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it. Votes: 2

It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too. Votes: 2

I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much. Votes: 2

Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit. 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

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly. Votes: 2

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. Votes: 2

I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible. Votes: 2

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds. Votes: 2

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics Votes: 1

Kangoroos can't hop backwards. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a vehicle. Votes: 0

I'd always loved hip-hop. Votes: 0

I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler. Votes: 0

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Votes: 0

My son is a hip-hop producer. Votes: 0

I feel like I changed hip-hop. Votes: 0

I'm a big hip hop fan. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is all over the planet. Votes: 0

Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done. Votes: 0

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada. Votes: 0

There is still consciousness in hip hop. Votes: 0

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today Votes: 0

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin' Votes: 0

Hip-hop is the last true folk art. Votes: 0

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

When I die, so does hip hop. Votes: 0

Hip-hop didn't invent anything"¦ hip-hop re-invented everything. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people. Votes: 0

Most of the hip-hop people are very straight. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. Votes: 0

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic. Votes: 0

I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin. Votes: 0

I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop Votes: 0

Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is. Votes: 0

Started from the chair hop now we here. Votes: 0

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop. Votes: 0

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience. Votes: 0

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. Votes: 0

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us. Votes: 0

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop. Votes: 0

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing. Votes: 0

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz. Votes: 0

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. Votes: 0

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around. Votes: 0

Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy. Votes: 0

Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game, Votes: 0

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up? Votes: 0

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party. Votes: 0

I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity. Votes: 0

Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop. Votes: 0

How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever? Votes: 0

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it Votes: 0

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem. Votes: 0

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher. Votes: 0

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives. Votes: 0

You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop. Votes: 0

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead? Votes: 0

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years. Votes: 0

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop. Votes: 0

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s. Votes: 0

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too. Votes: 0

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. Votes: 0

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day. Votes: 0

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. Votes: 0

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop Votes: 0

I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive. Votes: 0

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop. Votes: 0

I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating. Votes: 0

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

I am street hip-hop brother. That's my biggest message with that one. Votes: 0

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing. Votes: 0

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed. Votes: 0

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. Votes: 0

We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York. Votes: 0

Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop. Votes: 0

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. Votes: 0

It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon. Votes: 0

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY. Votes: 0

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine. Votes: 0

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music. Votes: 0

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist. Votes: 0

They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there. Votes: 0

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music. Votes: 0

Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style. Votes: 0

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

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop. Votes: 0

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop. Votes: 0

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

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight. Votes: 0

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. Votes: 0

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde. Votes: 0

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. Votes: 0

The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69. Votes: 0

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond. Votes: 0

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

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z. Votes: 0

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Votes: 0

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York. Votes: 0

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40. Votes: 0

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. Votes: 0

One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling. Votes: 0

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know. Votes: 0

I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing. Votes: 0

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

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

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight. Votes: 0

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right. Votes: 0

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. Votes: 0

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement. Votes: 0

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs. Votes: 0

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry. Votes: 0

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds. Votes: 0

I wake up hip-hop, Go to sleep hip-hop, Dream 'bout hip-hop, 'Cause I AM HIP-HOP. Votes: 0

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop. Votes: 0

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it. Votes: 0

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. Votes: 0

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop. Votes: 0

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls. Votes: 0

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles. Votes: 0

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

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop. Votes: 0

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am. Votes: 0

There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money. Votes: 0

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either. Votes: 0

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B. Votes: 0

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture. Votes: 0

The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'. Votes: 0

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. Votes: 0

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

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years, Votes: 0

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much. Votes: 0

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. Votes: 0

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. Votes: 0

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

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down. Votes: 0

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about. Votes: 0

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.' Votes: 0

I think things are gonna change. I'm gonna take the age limit off of hip hop. Votes: 0

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on. Votes: 0

I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that I'm gonna be bigger than Wal-Mart. Votes: 0

If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours. Votes: 0

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element. Votes: 0

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it. Votes: 0

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

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money. Votes: 0

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois. Votes: 0

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community. Votes: 0

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. Votes: 0

The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is. Votes: 0

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop. Votes: 0

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. Votes: 0

Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other... Votes: 0

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

I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire. Votes: 0

It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre. Votes: 0

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7. Votes: 0

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama. Votes: 0

I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor. Votes: 0

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page. Votes: 0

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it. Votes: 0

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man. Votes: 0

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet. Votes: 0

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing? Votes: 0

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll. Votes: 0

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

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

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

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it. Votes: 0

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop. Votes: 0

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics. Votes: 0

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues. Votes: 0

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive. Votes: 0

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Votes: 0

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

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz. Votes: 0

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

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop. 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 still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff. Votes: 0

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude. Votes: 0

You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy. Votes: 0

Hip hop is kinda funny because the further you get into it the more at risk you are. Votes: 0

My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform. Votes: 0

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas. Votes: 0

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses. Votes: 0

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too. Votes: 0

Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op? Votes: 0

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be. Votes: 0

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost. Votes: 0

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. Votes: 0

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever. Votes: 0

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up. Votes: 0

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily. Votes: 0

If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop. Votes: 0

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

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person. Votes: 0

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. Votes: 0

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh. Votes: 0

There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening. Votes: 0

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop. Votes: 0

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre. Votes: 0

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more. 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

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly. 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've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. Votes: 0

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era. Votes: 0

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried. 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

My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop. Votes: 0

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change. Votes: 0

My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay. Votes: 0

As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheelMeeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicappedIs only a state of mind Votes: 0

Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn't just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff. Votes: 0

The borders and boundaries of hip-hop have been broken all over the world. There's a great scene everywhere you go. Votes: 0

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it. Votes: 0

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness. Votes: 0

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history. Votes: 0

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter. Votes: 0

Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes. Votes: 0

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes. 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

I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop. Votes: 0

From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters. Votes: 0

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop. 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

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone. Votes: 0

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent. 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

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb! Votes: 0

There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game. Votes: 0

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ. Votes: 0

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones. Votes: 0

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now. Votes: 0

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue. Votes: 0

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it. Votes: 0

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now. Votes: 0

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you." Votes: 0

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary. 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

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it. Votes: 0

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz. Votes: 0

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form. Votes: 0

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: 0

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces. Votes: 0

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man. Votes: 0

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman. Votes: 0

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. Votes: 0

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves. Votes: 0

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw. Votes: 0

According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard! Votes: 0

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack. Votes: 0

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that. 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

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

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

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government. 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

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets. Votes: 0

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever. Votes: 0

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids. 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

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

I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop. Votes: 0

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about. Votes: 0

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. Votes: 0

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at. 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

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box. Votes: 0

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' Votes: 0

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life. Votes: 0

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience. Votes: 0

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know. Votes: 0

I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle. Votes: 0

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience. 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

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in. Votes: 0

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. Votes: 0

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat. Votes: 0

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later. 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

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years. Votes: 0

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop. 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

I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue. 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

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. Votes: 0

Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing. Votes: 0

I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world. Votes: 0

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: 0

After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise. Votes: 0

Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness. Votes: 0

So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live. Votes: 0

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone. Votes: 0

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals. Votes: 0

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. 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

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing. Votes: 0

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow. Votes: 0

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language. Votes: 0

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there. Votes: 0

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle. 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

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message. Votes: 0

I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio. Votes: 0

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me. Have you read the YouTube comments lately? "˜Man, that's gay' gets dropped on the daily, Votes: 0

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art. 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

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people. Votes: 0

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome. Votes: 0

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience. 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

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

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug. 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

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. Votes: 0

I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out. Votes: 0

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.' 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

She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop. Votes: 0

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community. Votes: 0

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties. Votes: 0

Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence. Votes: 0

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun. Votes: 0

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives. Votes: 0

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there. Votes: 0

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more. Votes: 0

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim. Votes: 0

I'm not sure you can lindy hop to 'We're All In This Together,' but I'm sure the nuns would welcome Zac Efron round for tea! Votes: 0

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high. 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

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness. Votes: 0

I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person. Votes: 0

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions. Votes: 0

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high." 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 know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this. 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

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

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. 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

Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture. Votes: 0

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. Votes: 0

I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario. Votes: 0

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop. Votes: 0

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it. Votes: 0

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community. Votes: 0

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun. Votes: 0

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove. 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 and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture. Votes: 0

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work. 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'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: 0

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge. Votes: 0

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop. Votes: 0

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds. 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

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time. Votes: 0

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. 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

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. Votes: 0

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world. Votes: 0

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat. 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

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock. Votes: 0

When I think about Christian hip hop I think of an individual who is a Christian who is using hip hop to communicate things that God will endorse. Votes: 0

I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too. 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'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first. 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 basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore. Votes: 0

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to. 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

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New. Votes: 0

I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known. Votes: 0

I've been watching battle rap since that time period when Cassidy was hot, Murda Mook and Lux first when at it. That was a very pivotal time in 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

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect. Votes: 0

Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived. Votes: 0

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. Votes: 0

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies. Votes: 0

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures. Votes: 0

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different. Votes: 0

I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to RB all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person. 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'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person. Votes: 0

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop. Votes: 0

I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar. Votes: 0

Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed. Votes: 0

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop. Votes: 0

You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones. Votes: 0

For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife. Votes: 0

I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&B artists such as Drake and Rihanna. Votes: 0

I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it. Votes: 0

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats. Votes: 0

I love pop music... some hip hop... not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was my first concert I went to. I love her. Votes: 0

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto. Votes: 0

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop. Votes: 0

I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come. Votes: 0

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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: 0