Quotes about hip hop: Page 2

My rhymin' is a vitamin held without a capsule

Lyrically, I dust 'em off like Pledge

Check it, it's like I'm fighting for freedom, writing for freedom

These record company niggas, I don't like when I see 'em

My ancestors, when I'm writing I see 'em and talk with 'em

I love the art of being able to still talk that gangsta shit, the street shit and still do it in a different way

I just fell in love with the music, man. The music just took control. It really saved my life.

Street scriptures for lost souls in the crossroads

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I’m always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

Stuck in Orange Mound (Mound), ten toes down (Down)

Nowhere to go but up, I'm underground I'm so down

But God bless me with this gift of poetry

So with this CD the world could see what I see

Leave that to The Artful Dodger

The broad-shouldered fifty-one percent shareholder

You won't find us on Alta Vista

Cult classic, not bestseller

There really is no formula. Sometimes you go into the studio and don't come up with nothing. The one thing I don't do is force it.

The thing is, I can only give what I’m feeling. I’m interested in discovery. If there’s not any discovery, it doesn’t feel real to me.

That’s why the Kanye Wests and the Drakes are just in a different league, because they have the ability to be vulnerable and open.

I recite hype rhymes that shine like rainbows

I pick up the microphone and play MCs like game shows

I don’t just wanna be a popular person, I want my music to always live because that’s what’s gonna drive your legacy.

See, if you can't do what you imagine

Then what is imagination to you?

If a rap can paint a thousand words, then I can paint a million

Wait, Lyte is capable of painting a bazillion raps

In the discussion of who’s the best rapper in the world, I think it really needs to be an international discussion

AI re-creations of dead artists are being puppeteered by an executive. Who wants that shit?

Yo, picture bloodbaths in elevator shafts

Book smart with the bars, but I never learnt that from school (Nah)

I don’t know if anything can ever be perfect, you know? I don’t even want it to be perfect because human aren’t perfect so the music shouldn’t be.

The bottom line is, "Are you in this for money, or are you in this for art?"

But this what made the best music. This what got the best out of me. I created off negativity. It always fuel my fire.

I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke

Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke

When I'm gone no one gets on 'cause I won't let

Nobody press up and mess up the scene I set

when you’ve been cut you don’t just cover the wound up – if you do it’s going to be dirty, rotten and festering deep inside. It hurts but you’ve got to scrape that crap the fuck out of there.

This rap career ain't work, it's the life in-between

It's unpredictable when my tongue performs Jiu-Jitsu

Cut you with my lyrics, stab you with my pencil (Come on)

What you see now are performers who have been broken to fit into a mold. They are not going to disrupt the order of things

I stick to my guns—that’s what keeps me going as an artist.

I would rather not sell any records than (not tell) my truth.

Music is like magic, there's a certain feelin' you get

When you real and you spit, and people are feelin' your shit

I'm very grateful of being able to be in a space where you get the gift and opportunity to show people better than you can tell 'em.

Rappers sometimes get older and fall off, but you should be getting better with age more than anything else. Rap isn’t a physical sport, it is a mental one, and your mind gets wiser when you get older.

I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.

His name is Jay, to see him play, will make you say

"God damn that DJ made my day"

But rap music is not athletic! It doesn't require you to be physically fit to be at the top of your game. You can expand your mind's growth and still get better with age.

Mics I steadily smoke, rhymes cleverly wrote

As long as I can rock a crowd, I'ma never be broke

The more you work on a beat, the better it starts to sound.

I decipher prophecies through a mic and say, "Peace"

But I never wanna be the butthurt rapper, always complaining in songs about where the culture gone. Nobody wanna hear that shit, man.

Mainstream is cool but in my heart forever underground

Rap is in its adolescence, and it’s been stuck here since Soulja Boy

Every song has a story. Even if it's not a narrative story, even if it's not always about storytelling. It's just about painting a visual picture.

Whatever I feel uncomfortable about, I just say it. A lot of people live by telling lies. I live by telling the truth.

Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

Time does change, but the music, it remains the same

It’s definitely a gift and a curse when you make music as personal as I make it.

I create 'em, take 'em, shake 'em, then make 'em clap to this

Most of you rappers can't even rap to this

Problem, I can sneeze, sniffle, or cough

E-e-e-even if I stutter, I'ma still come off

Some of it be based off of real life, but a lot of it be creative stories.

It takes (Wayne and Drake) so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I can write a perfect song in ten minutes

My pussy teachin ninth-grade English

And treat every single one of your words like reinforcements

I videotaped it all in my mind and turned it into art.

Buju Banton, I'm a true champion, like

Farrakhan reads his daily Qur'an

It's a phenomenon, lyrics fast like Ramadan

Growing up as a musician is knowing that what I want to say in eight minutes worth of content can be said as sharply, as deeply, in two minutes and thirty seconds.

With N.W.A., I think our biggest legacy is that we made it alright for you to say whatever you wanted to say on your record, and be whoever you wanted to be on your record.

I don’t need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It’s the music and it’s always been about the music.

I always feel that I can improve something until I just get sick of it.

The goal here is to be as much me as possible