Hop Quotes

I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely.

There’s a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it’s coming. It’s coming.

I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.