Hip Hop Quotes (121 quotes)

“The human body is the best work of art.”
― Jess C. Scott

tags: art, beauty, body, body-image, dancer, desire, fashion, fitness, food-for-thought, funny, girl, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, lust, lust-for-life, passion, young, young-adult, young-adults, youth

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“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C Scott

tags: beauty, body, body-image, culture, dance, dancer, desire, fashion, fitness, food, food-for-thought, friendship, funny, girl, health, healthy, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, lust-for-life, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, self, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adults, youth

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“Please, touch me, I pray.”
― Jess C Scott, The Intern

tags: desire, friendship, funny, girl, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, lust, lust-for-life, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adults

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“Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.”
― Jay-Z

tags: hip-hop, jay-z, music

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“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

tags: hip-hop, music, poetry, rap

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“The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.”
― Lindsey Stirling

tags: composer, hip-hop, music, violin, violinist

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“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: adage, advertisement, alliterations, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, avocation, b-boying, blog, blogging, book-writing, catch-lines, catchphrases, characters, choreographer, choreography, club, creative-writing, dance, dance-academy, dance-class, dance-quotes, dance-routine, dance-studio, dancing, dancing-shoes, disco, dj, essay, feet, feets, floor, foot, fun, hip-hop, hobby, inspirational, jumping, knowledge, leisure, motivational, movie, movie-dialogue, moving, music, night-life, novel-writing, partner, philosophy, proverbs, public-speaking, punchline, quotes, recreation, rhetoric, salsa, salsa-dance, script, script-writing, scriptwriting, shoes, slogans, social-networking, speech, speechwriting, step, steps, story, street-dance, style, tag-lines, wisdom, wit, witty, writing

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“Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.”
― KRS-One

tags: hip-hop, rap

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“You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

tags: hip-hop, inner-city, music, rap

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“This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

tags: hip-hop, poet, young-adult-fiction

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“Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps”
― Chuck D

tags: hip-hop

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“Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

tags: hip-hop

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“Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

tags: hip-hop, music, rap

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“No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.”
― Frank Ocean

tags: bogus, funny, hip-hop, horomones, in-the-moment, life-and-living, r-and-b

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“London, London, London town,
You can toughen up or get thrown around.”
― Kano

tags: hip-hop, london, music

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“Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite/ sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.”
― Nasir Jones

tags: hip-hop

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“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.”
― bell hooks, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

tags: black-men, hip-hop, pop-culture

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“A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

tags: hip-hop, music, rap, sampling

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“Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

tags: global-hip-hop, hip-hop, hiphop, journey, journeying, journeys-in-life, proverbial-key, roaming, travel, traveling

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“In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief”
― Laura Goode

tags: hip-hop, young-adult

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“We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.”
― Nikesh Shukla, Coconut Unlimited

tags: basketball, hip-hop, humour

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“The truth is the truth and the real is the real, and you have the right to say exactly how you feel.”
― Vlad Lyubovny

tags: confident, hip-hop, motivational

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“You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, you can lead someone to knowledge but you can't make him think”
― B.o.B

tags: hip-hop, knowledge, wisdom

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“Fairly accurate, adequate with the magic experiencing a dynamic range. It's not what you have but what you can give away.”
― Jose Vargas-Pacas

tags: bear-and-lion-children-s-books, hip-hop, interdimensional, jose-of, rap, scratch-paper-comics, sssr8m, sssr8m-music

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“Verder zou ik haar bijbrengen dat het niet manhaftig was om te pesten, om baldadig, cynisch en uitlokkend te zijn, zaken waar je aanzien mee verwierf in de Marokkaanse hiphopcultuur op 'zwarte' scholen. Dat dat niet van bravoure maar van dieptriestheid getuigde. Ik zou haar vertellen dat ze niet kansarm was, dat ze het niet moest toelaten dat iemand haar dat in de schoenen schuift.”
― Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

tags: dutch, hip-hop, moroccan, toxic

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“When you feel the beat in your bones you know!”
― No Cheese Records

tags: beats, hip-hop, inspirational-quotes, music, no-cheese-records, pulse

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“Got a Vonnegut punch for your Atlas Shrugs!”
― Run the Jewels

tags: hip-hop, literary-inspiration, lyrics, music, rap

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“ain't worried nobody drip, i drip the best.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

tags: drip, fashion, hip-hop, life, music, outfits

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“They label my vocabulary abusive, I pack more knowledge than Confucius, I'm deadly”
― Kurupt

tags: confucianism, hip-hop

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“Rap music is the newspaper of black people.”
― Jason Tanz, Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America

tags: hip-hop, information-exchange, media-literacy, music-education, music-industry, music-literacy, news-media, rap-music, saliency

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