Hip Quotations | Page 4

Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

And when I say it, they get alarmed... 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

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

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.

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

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

All I want is peace and love on this planet. Ain't that how God planned it?

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.

I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.

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.

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.

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

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

Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

Whatever floats your boat...or finds your lost remote...

Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

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

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

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.

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

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

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

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

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

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

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

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

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

I'm expressin' with my full capabilities, And now I'm livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don't agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.

I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

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.

When I signed for Celtic I did say to them that it would be best for the club and myself to maybe look at things in the summer but they were quite keen for me to sign for the extra year, which I did eventually. But I will look at things in the summer and see how my hip is bearing up. I'm due to go back to the hip specialist in the summer. It's important to be fair to myself and the club if it is affecting me.

This relationship with Landmark Theatres allows us to reach our target customer in so many creative and entertaining ways, ... It is a perfect fit for the Mercury brand as it reaches out to a new, young, hip audience.

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

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

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

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

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

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

Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard; It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.

Everybody mad when their paper don't stack right

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.

I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.

I've been patiently waiting to blow!

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest, I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest, Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest. Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.

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

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

We're going to try and make it an independent, hip hotel.

We were supposed to be hip and wild and we were supposed to have this kind of mystique/edge thing.

My forte is the music. But obviously if ya don't keep up with the business, then your kinda doing it for nothing. So I do plan on being well off doing, maximizing what I do now. I heard Jimmy Kimmel describe being in your thirties in hip-hop is like the equivalent to being 300 yrs. old; almost like a dinosaur.

Parents just don't understand.

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.

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery

I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

BMI is a very weak predictor of the risk of a heart attack. Measuring the girth of the waist and (the) girth of the hip is far more powerful.

Biking is my meditation. I never actually stopped doing anything. The hip made me stop running, so I got on the bike.

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, 'What an idiot; what's going on here?'

Between the beach and the railroad, ... every house is just gone, ... Ninety percent of the structures are totally just gone. Debris (is) knee deep, waist deep, hip deep.

Every family has issues. When you think about what happens in other clubhouses this is quite trivial. I love Gary and in the course of eight months if family are not going to say things that they regret or think from the hip it's not real.

I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper.

I see that as an area that holds great promise for being the next sort of hip and trendy area.

I still don't feel ready to compete at a high level. I have undergone exams this past week, and my hip still lacks stability. I will spend the upcoming weeks in the U.S. undergoing treatment.

We're thrilled about the potential EBAUM'S WORLD gives us to do something cutting-edge and original. We want to build and expand on the younger audience USA has tapped into thanks to MONDAY NIGHT RAW, and this project is a step in that direction. With its young male viewpoint, hip counter-culture feel and home-video sensibility, EBAUM'S WORLD promises to be the craziest late-night show in all of television.

The third reason is that the dress became dowdy. It just wasn't something anyone youthful and hip wanted to wear.

The study's findings of slowed bone loss and the reduction in hip fractures for some groups suggest a role for these supplements in preventing hip fracture in generally healthy postmenopausal women and support the current Surgeon General's recommendations for these nutrients.

The situation with his hip is very positive, ... He has a lingering Achilles (tendon) problem from last year. He has been taking treatment on it the last couple of months. I think his timetable to play at 100 percent is going to be a little further down the line.

The situation with his hip is very positive. He has a lingering Achilles (tendon) problem from last year. He has been taking treatment on it the last couple of months. I think his timetable to play at 100 percent is going to be a little further down the line.

What should be, is.' As my grandmother explained it to our family the winter she lost three fingertips to frostbite when the furnace in her little house broke and she fell and cracked a hip while trying to light it, 'Accepting life's imperfections is not the secret. The secret, dears, is to understand life has none. How could it? We've got nothing to compare it to. We can dream something up, of course- some pretty maybe life where fingers are very hard and indestructible- but that's pure mischief, darlings. Fingers freeze. It's one of the things they like to do sometimes.

When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.

The way hospitals are managed is not acceptable for the public; you have people waiting three years for a hip replacement,

The rising cost of fuel has also hit the hip pockets of Australian families hard this year.

We tell our backs to just get on the back hip of that guy on those pulling plays and just ride it out. Randy does an excellent job of that. There were a couple of times where he's actually been looking back over his shoulder to say, 'Hey, where are you, baby? Come on! Come on!' We love to see that and we love to execute those kinds of plays.

There is not anything like a broken hip or anything like that, and if you have trouble sleeping at night, why it's no problem because there's another one coming up in 45 minutes.

Best Buy wants to bring customers exclusive music entertainment from their favorite artists. Public Enemy is one of the most influential rap groups of all time and they've captivated hip hop fans for years. This new album brings more of the energy and passion that makes this group great.

After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

The thing about Hip Hop today and music in general is that the people who created it meaning Blacks and Latinos do not control it no more.

Thanks in part to the success of high profile professionals who are helping to reshape the image of golf in a positive and hip way, the appeal of golf to younger generations, women, and more diverse ethnic groups is starting to evolve.

I wanted something simple. Over the course of a weekend, I turned out a hip sack that became a precursor to the stuff we're building now.

We are down about 10 to 12 people. People are getting older. Some are having hip replacements or knee operations, or other problems that keep them from doing what can be active, energetic work.