Hip Hop quotes

Hip Hop

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever."

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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone"

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Hip Hop

"I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will."

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Aesop Rock Rapper
Hip Hop

"...I've never had a dream in my life, Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued. I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done. So I've been the dream I wanted to be since Day One."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words."

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