Quotes about hip hop: Page 3

Listening to the stuff on the radio today, you’d think rap is one big sample. That’s an insult to all of us who’ve been here from the beginning

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

I’ve never been the braggadocious, cocky MC on the mic. I’ve always been the one laid back and played my position.

We work nights, we some vampires

the arts, you should get better — you should be more curious. I mean, I would argue that Picasso got better. Miles Davis got better.

Without my music, where would I be?

You taught me how to cry and still remain a G

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel

This is sanctified sex; this is player Pentecostal

But through my music, I was able to actually be the soundtrack to the lives of people, just create moments in people’s lives.

I call it "pull-up-and-park music." Pull up at the store, pull up on the corner, park, blast the shit, roll the windows down, everybody circling around the car.

I want to be able to be brave enough and trust God enough to say what it is that most people are afraid to say.

It takes time. It's long. I take words and think about how I can use them in a story. It always starts with a word.

Because at the end of the day, the real questions get answered by the quality of the art.

I create at the speed and flow of my inspiration, which doesn’t always work in a traditional system.

Each word that I say may cut you like a knife

And totally influence and change somebody life

Rarely out my element, barely out the ghetto with

One foot out and one foot in, intelligent as fellas get

Someone in love with the art doesn’t not experience fear or anxiety, they just do their best to transcend it or work beyond it so that the art or the passion can be made manifest.

I had to learn how to perform for a crowd who's looking at you like you ain't shit

I don’t believe I’m the savior of hip-hop or bringing hip-hop back or anything like that — I just feel like it’s me doing me!

Take the pressure off, don’t rush an album out. No one’s going anywhere.

I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Music is energy. You want it to bounce off the walls, you want it to bounce between people, you want it to fill a room

My mind is like a living, breathing Martin Scorsese world, you know? I want the listener to hear the words and my shit to make them feel like it's pure cinema.

It don't matter what you look like — your race, your style, if you're cute or fucking ugly. None of that shit matter when it comes down to the music

All we had was records.

When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.

Yeah, I'm the L, won't you pull it? (Pull it)

Straight to the head with the speed of a bullet (Bullet)

Cuttin' niggas off at the meeky-freaky gullet

People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

What if my music too weird for the masses?

And I'm only known for tweets more than beats or

This Run The Jewels is: murder, mayhem, melodic music

I woke up this morning and decided I don't expect for you to understand my shit, if you're not hip-hop

We rappers. We just like directors and script writers, but we comin' from a street point of view, so we just talk about what we see.

I don’t care for numbers, I only care for craft. I don’t pay attention to them.

I’ve never considered myself the best producer or the best singer or the best rapper or any of those separate categories. But one thing I do have confidence in is my feeling.

We had the power to change people’s minds about things going on in the world, not just whose ass is the fattest.

This massacre's on, as if Picasso laced you

There's lots of hateful skeletons locked

In the closet of my castle of Grayskull

The music is a release valve for me, because in comedy you're not really allowed to put yourself into it.

8Ball and MJG was the soulful side of Memphis, and Three 6 Mafia was the mad, younger side.

They sayin hip hop dead, I say we kept it alive

Some of you've been trying to write rhymes for years

But weak ideas irritate my ears

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

The scene of a crime every night at the show

The fiend of a rhyme on the mic that you know

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It’s like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

I put my lifetime in between the paper's lines

I'm the quiet storm nigga who fight rhyme

P, yeah, you heard of him, but I ain't concerned with them

I love making music and I’m falling in love with making records, so it’s like having two girlfriends.

I mean, well, then you got to look at really, like, what is rap - black expression, bro. And what was jazz? It's black expression, bro.

if you want my platform, take your bougie Black ass and get to practicing your bars motherfucker.

Anyone who doesn’t think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

would you go back and change a masterpiece because of one lyric? No, don’t touch it!

Since rappin' turn to fashion, I don't know what happen

You could say I was feeding my ego and building a style at the same time.

There is no perfect lyric.

I don't budge, don't want much, just a roof and a porch

And a Porsche, and a horse, and unfortunately, but of course

An assortment of torches that scorches the skin

Call me a redneck, and I just tattoo it

Because of the abuse and I use it as therapy in music

I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

I just like to paint, man. Sometimes it's dark and serious, but other times you need those lighter strokes, so you tell a joke.

Don’t ever call me a Rapper.. IM AN ARTIST!!!!!

Hip-hop is informed by the struggle. It always has been. It came from Africa Bambaataa talking about peace, love, unity — and having fun. You can’t leave out the fun, but you can’t forget the rest either.

I win, more disciplined than a Shaolin monk (Woo)

My flow nuts like M&M's in the yellow bag (Mariah)

I'm the apex

I made the culture, what up, twin?