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MOST DAYS MY LIFE
CAN BE SUMMED UP IN
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AND
HIP HOP AND R&B LYR...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
EVAN GLODELL People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
PINO CARUSO![]()
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI![]()
The Hip Hop Professor.
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ERIK PARKER He is one of the more venerated artists. He is very well known in the hip-hop steam.
ANDREW HARDING My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging tha...
LEE DANIELS![]()
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
RUSSELL SIMMONS He was acting as an advocate at the time, that's a different role than as a judge,
JOHN ENSIGN I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of m...
SEAN PAUL I could've sat at home and watched TV today. But I'm here doing something positive and honoring him....
FAREN HUMES If it wasn't for (King), we wouldn't be here.
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CHARLIE HUGHES Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists,...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot ...
TALIB KWELI![]()
While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical...
BELL HOOKS Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES![]()
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou...
CHUCK D This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer ...
BRYAN FERRY When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee...
LIL MAMA [But when the infectious beat of reggaetón, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro...
DADDY YANKEE [But when the infectious beat of reggaetón, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro...
DADDY YANKEE Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good ...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA [Another factor in the escalating respect for Biggie concerns changes within hip hop itself.] Biggie...
ELLIOTT WILSON Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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PUSHA T![]()
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, ...
WILLIAM JAMES![]()
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself,...
WILLIAM JAMES I think people respond to it because it's so positive and inspiring. It means different things to di...
LEE PERRY Hip hop is inherently political, the language is political. It uses language as a weapon -- not a we...
TODD BOYD I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just...
MIKE POSNER![]()
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call...
LAURYN HILL I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in ...
SKYLAR GREY He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of coun...
JOHN ALTENBURGH![]()
I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we ha...
STEVE HARVEY When negative thoughts haunts replace it with positive thinking & see the wonder of positive outcome...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA![]()
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant ...
ADAM MANSBACH A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes.
LINDSEY RIETZSCH![]()
The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a goo...
TALIB KWELI He is a strong advocate for the ABC House, putting on a benefit shooting match which raises thousand...
JOE SIMON I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
ADAM MANSBACH![]()
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal...
MAYER HAWTHORNE![]()
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS![]()
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in h...
STEVE ALBINI I think the community is definitely strong enough to be able to handle something like this, as bad a...
DENNIS KING If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA [Farrakhan's invitation comes even as other African American leaders, from Reverend Al Sharpton to h...
KEITH BOYKIN Something was positive, something was negative. The attacking was good but in the defense ... that's...
KAREL BRUCKNER
TRAVIE MCCOY Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that... BUSTA RHYMES
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh... ASAP ROCKY I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style ...
LIL' KIM I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other asp...
ANGIE MARTINEZ
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke... WILL.I.AM Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear w... ICE T [Marley recognizes the similarities between hip-hop and the reggae music his father helped put on th...
DAMIAN MARLEY When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many m...
FAT JOE
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is. TALIB KWELI Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rare...
QUESTLOVE We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don...
JAMES BUCKLEY Hip-hop is a style. Some of my owners are hip-hop, but they dress in a different fashion. Hip-hop do...
DAVID STERN There's always something positive left by a negative happening in your life, no matter how small, it...
JOHNNY LEE PIRO
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi... ERYKAH BADU I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT It's a hip-hop record, but it's a musician-based hip-hop record,
MIKE SHINODA
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative a... AVICII I don't see this as a negative or a positive. I see it as a reflection of the already lousy fundamen...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's...
CAMERON CROWE Most of the lyrics, if you listen to the poetry of hip-hop, is about taking a devastating situation ...
BEN CHAVIS
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result ... VANILLA ICE This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ...
NAYVADIUS CASH Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin i...
KAT DAHLIA The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN
God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best... CRISS JAMI
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a... JAY-Z
Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl... ABERJHANI
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho... KENDRICK LAMAR We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY It's nice to see hip-hop covering their tracks.
ALEX GRAY My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see...
DEBORAH COX November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring toget...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. AJAY NAIDU
I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the ... NICK CANNON When they started in with the hip-hop music, people poured out onto the street and started raising C...
WILLIAM BENSON I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicia...
NAS
MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN
MOVIE QUOTES
AND
HIP HOP AND R&B LYR...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
EVAN GLODELL People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
PINO CARUSO
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... TALIB KWELI
The Hip Hop Professor. MICHAEL JORDAN A lot of hip-hop fans resented them for being the token hip-hop group that was representing hip-hop ...
ERIK PARKER He is one of the more venerated artists. He is very well known in the hip-hop steam.
ANDREW HARDING My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging tha...
LEE DANIELS
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people. RUSSELL SIMMONS He was acting as an advocate at the time, that's a different role than as a judge,
JOHN ENSIGN I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of m...
SEAN PAUL I could've sat at home and watched TV today. But I'm here doing something positive and honoring him....
FAREN HUMES If it wasn't for (King), we wouldn't be here.
FAREN HUMES People referred to him as a peacemaker. He was an amazing advocate for his people. He was a really k...
CRAIG FRANCIS
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi... DARREN ARONOFSKY The ordinary man sees this court as something from the outside that has little meaning to his life. ...
CHARLIE HUGHES Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists,...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot ... TALIB KWELI
While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical... BELL HOOKS Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou... CHUCK D This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer ...
BRYAN FERRY When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee...
LIL MAMA [But when the infectious beat of reggaetón, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro...
DADDY YANKEE [But when the infectious beat of reggaetón, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro...
DADDY YANKEE Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good ...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA [Another factor in the escalating respect for Biggie concerns changes within hip hop itself.] Biggie...
ELLIOTT WILSON Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
B.O.B I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on 'Darkest Before Dawn...
PUSHA T
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, ... WILLIAM JAMES
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself,... WILLIAM JAMES I think people respond to it because it's so positive and inspiring. It means different things to di...
LEE PERRY Hip hop is inherently political, the language is political. It uses language as a weapon -- not a we...
TODD BOYD I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just...
MIKE POSNER
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call... LAURYN HILL I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in ...
SKYLAR GREY He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of coun...
JOHN ALTENBURGH
I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we ha... STEVE HARVEY When negative thoughts haunts replace it with positive thinking & see the wonder of positive outcome...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t... QUINCY JONES To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant ...
ADAM MANSBACH A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes.
LINDSEY RIETZSCH
The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a goo... TALIB KWELI He is a strong advocate for the ABC House, putting on a benefit shooting match which raises thousand...
JOE SIMON I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
ADAM MANSBACH
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal... MAYER HAWTHORNE
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no... SAUL WILLIAMS
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in h... STEVE ALBINI I think the community is definitely strong enough to be able to handle something like this, as bad a...
DENNIS KING If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA [Farrakhan's invitation comes even as other African American leaders, from Reverend Al Sharpton to h...
KEITH BOYKIN Something was positive, something was negative. The attacking was good but in the defense ... that's...
KAREL BRUCKNER
The art of communication is the language of leadership. 
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are si... 
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to e... 
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his ... 