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“Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.”

Author:Nelly

“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.”

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Author:J. Cole

“In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'”

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Author:J. Cole

“When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.”

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Author:Akon

“The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.”

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Author:Matisyahu

“Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.”

Want Believe Humans Dies Hops Inappropriate

Book:Vacation

Source: Vacation

“Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.”

Art Self Form Artist Song Talking Comedy Painting Hip Hop Painter Hips Hops Hip Hop Artist

Author:Bo Burnham

“It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.”

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Author:Ashley Kahn

“Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.”

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Author:Lindsey Vonn

“I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.”

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Author:Kreayshawn

“At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.”

People Ifs Long Would Be Accepting Careers Worst Inspired Hip Hop Hips Hops Short Lived Long Careers Leniency Leotards

Author:Iggy Azalea

“I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.”

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Author:Natalia Kills

“Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other.”

Two Forever Lovers Mirrors Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Canibus

“The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.”

Hard Sound Sky Solitude Winter Ice Emptiness Hops Rooted Hollow January Stalking Syllables Scraping

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.”

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Author:Nas

“A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.”

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Author:Roy Ayers

“I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.”

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Author:Brian McKnight

“When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.”

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Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.”

Stills Romance Rocks Jazz Hip Hop Hips Hops Rock N Roll Vulgar Facade Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.”

Thinking Men Ends Black President Race Behinds Hip Hop Crowds Honestly Barack Hips The End Of The Day Hops Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.”

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Author:Ray Floyd

“You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.”

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Author:Ice T

“A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.”

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Author:Martin Buber

“Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.”

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Author:Chuck D

“Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.”

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Author:Chuck D

“One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.”

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Author:Chuck D

“People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.”

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Author:Chuck D

“I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.”

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Author:Soulja Boy

“When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.”

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Author:Swizz Beatz

“I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.”

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Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.”

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Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.”

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Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.”

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Author:Aloe Blacc

“Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.”

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Author:Aloe Blacc

“In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.”

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Author:Aloe Blacc

“I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.”

Different Three Novel One Thing Stuck Hops Back And Forth

Author:Dan Chaon

“Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.”

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Author:George Clinton

“I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.”

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Author:Kid Cudi

“My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.”

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Author:Kid Cudi

“The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.”

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Author:Jack Antonoff

“Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.”

People Knows Wells Journey Crazy Type Hip Hop Driven Hips Hops Drive Me Crazy

Author:Patrick Carney

“There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.”

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Author:Don Cornelius

“But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.”

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Author:John Cena

“I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.”

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Author:Jenna Dewan

“When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.”

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Author:Kim Deal

“All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.”

People Knows I Can Speak Industry Hip Hop Albums Hips Hops

Author:Brian Austin Green

“In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.”

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Author:Brian Austin Green

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