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Hip-Hop Quotes

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.

Job Artist Know Want Hip-Hop Big

I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

Utkarsh Ambudkar

New York Battle Acting New Hip-Hop

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

Focus Black America You Hip-Hop Get

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

Music Beautiful Song You Hip-Hop

I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on 'Darkest Before Dawn' are uncompromised hip-hop and really speaking to my core fan base. Basically what's been known in my discography the entire time.

Time Dawn Feel Dark Hip-Hop Darkest

Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.

Man Hip-Hop Years Different Been

30058 is the ZIP Code I grew up in in Atlanta, so the music represents where I'm from, and the mindset of '30058.' It's got a touch of reggae and a hip-hop feel. It's soothing, I think.

Music Think Mindset Feel Hip-Hop Up

Even in a lot of hip-hop music, they tell you don't give your heart to a woman. But many of the most successful rappers are head-over-heels in love.

Raheem DeVaughn

Love Music Heart Woman You Hip-Hop

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

Money Hip-Hop Always Bragging Been

I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'

People World Said Hip-Hop Over Saw

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

Hip-Hop Rap Tremendous Believer

I've never been a mega-star. I'm more of a tastemaker of hip-hop. I try to be more of an ambassador for the era of hip-hop that I came in.

Hip-Hop Try More Never Ambassador

As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.

Culture Teen White Hip-Hop No Sense

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

New York New Hip-Hop Bigger Than

When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.

People Hip-Hop First Only Maybe

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.

Music Listening Hip-Hop Started Been

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

Change Moving Black Hip-Hop Islam

The dancing style in Bollywood has changed a lot after 2000, mainly because of the dance-based reality TV shows. Everyone knows about the varied dance styles nowadays. The actors are also quick to pick up dance forms such as locking, popping, breaking and hip-hop. So, this factor has changed the industry's dancing style as a whole.

Style Dance Reality Hip-Hop Quick

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.

Art Money Energy Nobody Hip-Hop

That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.

Best You Want Hip-Hop Rule Get

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

Luther Campbell

Day Recognition Done Hip-Hop Awards

It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that.

Think You Jazz Hip-Hop Old Rare

Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's always been there.

Kamasi Washington

You Jazz Hip-Hop Listen Everything

I'm the outcast of the hip-hop game.

Game Hip-Hop Outcast

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