Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.
God gave us music, so we play with our words.
I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.
Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.
Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss
I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
Hip-Hop started out in the heart
I know nothing about hip-hop. . . There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.
. . And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.
The poor get worked, the rich get richer, The world gets worse, do you get the picture? The poor gets dead, the rich get depressed, The ugly get mad, the pretty get stressed. The ugly get violent, the pretty get gone, The old get stiff, the young get stepped on. Whoever told you that "it was all good" lied, So throw your fists up if you not satisfied.
You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you. . . make it sound fly to you.
On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.
I love hip-hop music,. . . It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class. . . they both come from the bottom of society.
Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.
In the history of the hip hop world. . . there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.
Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?
See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison. . . a waste of bars.
Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.