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These quotes are borrowed from Hip Hop artists, writers, and activists. Please give credit where credit is due and familiarize yourself with the artists, writers, and activists who have dropped their science for us. Full text versions of most songs can be found at the Original Hip Hop Lyrics Archive.
Afrika Bambaataa
"Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community. It's also the djs and rappers and their dress codes. That is hip hop, meaning the whole culture. Now if you're talking rap music..in rap the music itself is colorless. You can take music from any type of field like soul, funk, heavy metal, jazz, calypso and reggae. As long as it's funky and has that heavy beat and groove. You can take any part of it to make hip hop. Hip hop can deal with the past, the present and it can deal with the future. Now it's what a rapper puts on top of it that will make it a black thing or a white thing or a human thing or a universal thing...The music itself comes from all types of sound. When people are digging for that beat or groove they take from all fields of music. People will say hip hop just comes from soul or rock. It comes from all type of music, but it's based mainly around the toasting element of reggae. That's how rap came about."
Big Pun
"They're scared of us, rather beware than dare to trust/
Always in jail, million dollar bail, left there to rust/
Let's call in order, give ourselves a chance to enhance broader/
Advance to where minorities are the majority voter"
-Capital Punishment
Brother Ali
"There's 8 million ways to stretch words around beats/
and 6 million rappers be sharin' the same three/
but me, takin' the time/
to be creative with mine"
Chuck D
"Your mind is the real estate of the millennium. You are facing a country of mass distractions, really a whole world of mass distractions."
Common
"I start thinking, how many souls hip-hop has affected, how many dead folks this art has resurrected."
De La Soul
"When I climbed I found/
it was hard to find others around/
to point my fingers at - which made me realize the truth/
your biggest suppressor could be your own ego lookin' for an excuse"
-Held Down
Erykah Badu
"The world is mine. When I wake up I dont need nobody telling me the time"
Guru
"Your potential is infinite/
be wise; visualize; witness it"
"Heed the words, it's like ghetto-style proverbs/
the righteous pay a sacrifice to get what they deserve/
cannot afford to be confined to a cell/
brainwaves swell, turnin' a desert to a well"
-Above the Clouds
Inspectah Deck
"But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?/
Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth/
Who explained working hard may help you maintain/
to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain"
-Cream
"It's hard to keep control, I bless those who seek a scroll/
Trying to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold/
Not a role model, I walk a hard road to follow/
I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels"
-A Better Tomorrow
Jean Grae
"What happened to us and the bigger picture?/
Don't you know when one of us falls that we all fallin with ya?"
Jeru the Damaja
"Slow like demise I crept on those that slept/
Droppin my ryhme science like I'm Imhotep/
Application of mind over matter/
Made fools scatter, rhymes fatter, minds splatter"
-Mind Spray
Kanye West
"They used to feel invisible/
but now they know they're invincible"
Kelvin Celsius
"K.C.'s an emcee that always keeps conscious/
a square on his way somewhere - so appears rhombus"
-Faux Real
"i believe in the streets where we can be asked for change/
'cause i keep it within reach and it has been my middle name"
-Thug Doubt
KRS-1
"Everybody's bad, and everybody's tough/
but how many people are intelligent enough?"
Lauryn Hill
"Lets love ourselves then we can't fail, to make a better situation/
tomorrow our seeds will grow, all we need is dedication"
"Anything that isn't growin is dead,
so we better be changing"
Malcolm X
"Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself."
Murs
"We gotta fight to show the world that our youth are intelligent/
so keep it gangsta in your CD changer, not your residence"
OC
"I get a rush when I bust some dope lines I wrote/
that maybe somebody'll quote/
that's what I consider real in this field of music/
instead of puttin' brain cells to work they abuse it"
-Time's Up
Rakim
"I got a fetish for puttin' together words and letters/
It ain't all about the chedda so y'all know where my head is"
-I Know
Talib Kweli
"Find reppin' New York on the daily what the deally/
questionin' my teachers like 'Oh really?" so they fail me/
based on fraudulent fact, that's their practice like O'Reilly/
makin' me a hero for the class to come behind me"
-Over the Counter Intelligence
"Mi abuela raised three daughters all by herself/
with no help/
I think about her struggle and I find the strength in myself"
-Get By
Tupac
"...the things that helped me were the things I learned from my mother, from the streets, and reading."
Wise Intelligent
"I'd bulldoze all the projects/
I'd build ghettos of grandeur/
let Jadakiss ask why/
I'm here to provide the answers"
-Another Chance At Life
Afrika Bambaataa
"Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community. It's also the djs and rappers and their dress codes. That is hip hop, meaning the whole culture. Now if you're talking rap music..in rap the music itself is colorless. You can take music from any type of field like soul, funk, heavy metal, jazz, calypso and reggae. As long as it's funky and has that heavy beat and groove. You can take any part of it to make hip hop. Hip hop can deal with the past, the present and it can deal with the future. Now it's what a rapper puts on top of it that will make it a black thing or a white thing or a human thing or a universal thing...The music itself comes from all types of sound. When people are digging for that beat or groove they take from all fields of music. People will say hip hop just comes from soul or rock. It comes from all type of music, but it's based mainly around the toasting element of reggae. That's how rap came about."
Big Pun
"They're scared of us, rather beware than dare to trust/
Always in jail, million dollar bail, left there to rust/
Let's call in order, give ourselves a chance to enhance broader/
Advance to where minorities are the majority voter"
-Capital Punishment
Brother Ali
"There's 8 million ways to stretch words around beats/
and 6 million rappers be sharin' the same three/
but me, takin' the time/
to be creative with mine"
Chuck D
"Your mind is the real estate of the millennium. You are facing a country of mass distractions, really a whole world of mass distractions."
Common
"I start thinking, how many souls hip-hop has affected, how many dead folks this art has resurrected."
De La Soul
"When I climbed I found/
it was hard to find others around/
to point my fingers at - which made me realize the truth/
your biggest suppressor could be your own ego lookin' for an excuse"
-Held Down
Erykah Badu
"The world is mine. When I wake up I dont need nobody telling me the time"
Guru
"Your potential is infinite/
be wise; visualize; witness it"
"Heed the words, it's like ghetto-style proverbs/
the righteous pay a sacrifice to get what they deserve/
cannot afford to be confined to a cell/
brainwaves swell, turnin' a desert to a well"
-Above the Clouds
Inspectah Deck
"But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?/
Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth/
Who explained working hard may help you maintain/
to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain"
-Cream
"It's hard to keep control, I bless those who seek a scroll/
Trying to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold/
Not a role model, I walk a hard road to follow/
I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels"
-A Better Tomorrow
Jean Grae
"What happened to us and the bigger picture?/
Don't you know when one of us falls that we all fallin with ya?"
Jeru the Damaja
"Slow like demise I crept on those that slept/
Droppin my ryhme science like I'm Imhotep/
Application of mind over matter/
Made fools scatter, rhymes fatter, minds splatter"
-Mind Spray
Kanye West
"They used to feel invisible/
but now they know they're invincible"
Kelvin Celsius
"K.C.'s an emcee that always keeps conscious/
a square on his way somewhere - so appears rhombus"
-Faux Real
"i believe in the streets where we can be asked for change/
'cause i keep it within reach and it has been my middle name"
-Thug Doubt
KRS-1
"Everybody's bad, and everybody's tough/
but how many people are intelligent enough?"
Lauryn Hill
"Lets love ourselves then we can't fail, to make a better situation/
tomorrow our seeds will grow, all we need is dedication"
"Anything that isn't growin is dead,
so we better be changing"
Malcolm X
"Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself."
Murs
"We gotta fight to show the world that our youth are intelligent/
so keep it gangsta in your CD changer, not your residence"
OC
"I get a rush when I bust some dope lines I wrote/
that maybe somebody'll quote/
that's what I consider real in this field of music/
instead of puttin' brain cells to work they abuse it"
-Time's Up
Rakim
"I got a fetish for puttin' together words and letters/
It ain't all about the chedda so y'all know where my head is"
-I Know
Talib Kweli
"Find reppin' New York on the daily what the deally/
questionin' my teachers like 'Oh really?" so they fail me/
based on fraudulent fact, that's their practice like O'Reilly/
makin' me a hero for the class to come behind me"
-Over the Counter Intelligence
"Mi abuela raised three daughters all by herself/
with no help/
I think about her struggle and I find the strength in myself"
-Get By
Tupac
"...the things that helped me were the things I learned from my mother, from the streets, and reading."
Wise Intelligent
"I'd bulldoze all the projects/
I'd build ghettos of grandeur/
let Jadakiss ask why/
I'm here to provide the answers"
-Another Chance At Life
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