Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.
The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
The God's tropical. . . ladies call me 'Black Fruit Punch. '
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.
We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's like they just got a pair of new jeans. . They just started wearing them below their belt 2 months ago.
Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical, Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catchin' 'em? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetchin' 'em.
If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.
Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.
The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop
I never see the whips niggas be claimin' they drivin, I guess 'entertainment' means blatantly lyin'.
I wanna lie to you sometimes. . . but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good. . . but it ain't.
I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.
I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.
I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.
My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it.