264 Quotes About Hip-hop

Rock and roll is not a guitar, it’s not long hair—that’s not rock and roll. It ain’t about an instrument, or this or that. The blues is the start of it all,” Ice Cube said. “You add some rhythm to that blues and you have all kind of people that’s doing rock and roll. And that develops into hip-hop. All of it is a spirit—the spirit of coming outside of the box. If you don’t see how N.W.A is rock and roll, then you really don’t get what it’s all about.

MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTESANDHIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS

It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.

PEOPLE WITH THE SMARTEST MOUTHSHAVE THE DUMBEST BRAINS

LOVE is... Looking Over Various Errors.

I believe hip hop’s characteristic beliefs as a whole are misunderstood, underappreciated and highly underestimated.

Hip hop music (and the entire category) is one of few that unite fans of all colors, races, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, ages and genders.

PRACTICE MAKES THE HARD THINGS EASY

Crackheads were different. They’d smoke in hallways, on playgrounds, on subway station suitcases. They got no respect. They were former neighbors, ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’, but once they started smoking, they were simply crackheads, the lowest on the food chain in the jungle, worse than prostitutes and almost as bad as snitches.