Quotes about hip hop: Page 4

I think you become a real artist when you stamp on shit instead putting what’s the wave.

If you’re not sincere with it, you shouldn’t say anything at all.

I ease my pain with my pen, write your name in the clouds

But, I only get sixteen, that's like a cage, you know?

If it don't touch my soul, then I can't listen to it

I don’t care what it is in life, you can’t have men without women. It’s just anarchy.

But I just want people to hear and to see and feel the movement, to see and feel the change, the journey of it.

Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine

Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline

Got a slug for the judge, bringin' heat for police

And a book full of sins that I reap when I sleep

Then I wake up and I put em on a beat, how you love that?

Most of my shit is deep. It's hard for me to make a fuckin' radio song

Back when I first grabbed that pen

I told myself I was gon' win

And I ain't know when

But it was gon' end up happenin', I want in

Then it becomes a gimmick if every rap album you make is about how you came up in the hood.

I treat my albums like movies, and I treat writing it like I'm a character writing a story

I laugh enough when I am recording them, that’s why I never smile.

One of the things I learned from him, is you don’t have to be drunk and high in order to create music

The shelf life is eternal.

It’s not about me. It’s not about fans. It’s not about being cool. It’s not about acceptance. It isn’t about wearing the new shit. It ain’t about having the new shit. It ain’t driving the new shit. It’s about music. I made a mark on history.

Rappers act so wild, and love to profile

Frontin' hard but they ain't got no style

Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, can't you see?

Somehow your words just hypnotize me

I'm stuck in a time capsule when rap was actually factual

Meaning shit you spit might cause killers to come and clap at you

Music should be your escape.

You gotta know your own formula, your own ingredients

I’m not concerned with if people get my music at the moment, but knowing I tried to make something timeless.

I just hear mistakes and things I could do better.

The last thing I'm paying attention to is how fast it is. The first thing I'm paying attention to is whether you're talking about something and are you making sense.

Because the rhymes I say sharp as a nail

Witty as can be and not for sale

Bass! How low can you go?

Death row? What a brother know

Once again, back is the incredible

I flow over a beat that make a chick weave blow

I got a certain type of recipe over here, man. You don’t need a whole bunch of additives and preservatives. I like to say, “Everything I do is organically created, never genetically modified.”

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?

Anthony Bourdain wasn’t pretentious, but he definitely knew the difference between a dry-aged wagyu and a smash burger. Neither is better or worse than the other.

People think I’m pretentious. I can be a snob. But I think in entertainment or art it’s important to know the difference between things

I wish artists would try not to do so much clout because the people notice it and it’s corny.

I want to provide the background music to your life as you live it. I’m there for you in heartbreak and tragedy and joy.

If you take away the ability to punch in, you'll see a lot of these artists can't sound as good as they sound

You can fit a lot of words into a verse. So if you’ve got all that space, why waste it on nonsense?

I hit 'em with the music from the slaves

Oh my goodness, what my ancestors gave

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

I am a painter. I see it in my mind, I find a way to grasp it, and then I've got to lay it down without holding anything back.