You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.
Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop. . .
Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.
I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.
Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure. . . grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.
Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.
I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in hip-hop, it's all about that I exist and these are my feelings and this is what I feel about the world. It's always been an undercurrent.
Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.
Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.
I know you like the way I am freakin' it. I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it.
Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live
I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me
Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.
I own the night. . . the heat's my receipt.
Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?
I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics
Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.