Hip Hop quotes
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"They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am."
"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."
"Take dem shoes off your teeth and stop running your mouth."
"Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?"
"Throw em a bone and they want a steak."
"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."
"Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem."
"This opportunity comes once in a lifetime."
"I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me."
"My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'."
"Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose."
"I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents."
"God sent me to piss the world off!"
"Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin', B.I.G. keep creepin', Bullets heat-seekin', Casualties need treatin', Dumb rappers need teachin'."
"There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing"
"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."
"Stop, collaborate and listen."
"My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology."
"I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on."
"Lyrically I'm supposed to represent, I'm not only the client, I'm the player president"
