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When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.
One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.
Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond... And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs.
I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.
The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.
I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea from?
Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.
Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.
In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.
Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?
And this is the only sound you should fear, man these kids wear crowns over here and everything is alright
And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.
What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.
Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.
I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
You would think I would recycle by the way I found my last chick...cause all she wants is paper or plastic.
I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.
My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.
Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.
Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough.
They say the good die young, so the bad die old. Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.
Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.
It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers.
I'm just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want 'cause I'm a fan of hip-hop.
I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.
I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.
Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop. I interrupt your little session...and wreck shop.
No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.
We commute to computers Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors We survivalists, turned to consumers.
Miss can I get a second to speak and quietly mention, That I am so into who you are, can I get your attention?
Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.
Trip-hop? That's never existed and they say I invented it. Trip-hop is just hip-hop with a girl singing on top.