Hip Hop Quotes

“Let's go, let's go, it's time to get ill.”

“My music is for the streets, for the hustlers.”

“I'm the biggest boss that you've seen thus far.”

“Hip-hop is a young man's game, so you have to be in the know. You have to be present.”

“Rap is something you do, hip-hop is something you live.”

“Hip-hop has always been about peace, love, unity, and having fun.”

“You could be a kid from the ghetto, you could have no education, you could be a dropout, but if you had a rhyme and a beat, you could be a star.”

“The DJ is the backbone of hip-hop.”

“We were the first generation of hip-hop.”

“Hip-hop is a cultural music. It is a way of life.”

“You gotta keep it real, you gotta be true to yourself.”

“Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been good at.”

“The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.”

“You don't have to be a certain thing to be a rapper. You don't have to be from a certain place.”

“Hip-hop is not the problem. Our reality is the problem.”

“I'm not a 'conscious' rapper... all rappers are conscious. That's a silly adjective to attach to a rapper.”

“The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been silenced.”

“I believe that hip-hop is an art form. It's a culture.”

“What is hip-hop? It's the whole culture. It's the style, the look, the music, the dance, the language.”

“There was a certain innocence to the early days of hip-hop.”