Hip Hop quotes
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"I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs."
"Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack."
"Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping"
"You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne."
"When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing."
"Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be."
"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"
"It seem like everybody dress tight now, And I just want my credit."
"I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of."
"People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically."
"It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good."
"Hip-Hop started out in the heart"
"Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?"
"Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it"
"They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend."
"Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing."
"Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder."
"Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up... Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up."
"My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it."
"People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie."
