Top 170 Hop Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Hop Quotes from famous people such as Mat Kearney, Kurtis Blow, Naima Adedapo, Afrika Bambaataa, Lil Mama, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in ‘Just Kids.’
Mat Kearney
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
Kurtis Blow
I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don’t know that I can dance. They don’t know it, and it’s frustrating me because I feel that it’s an edge that I have, and I’m not talking about I took this hip hop class, I’m talking about this is how people actually know me.
Naima Adedapo
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
Afrika Bambaataa
Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen or twenty-one or wherever you’re at, you get your lime when you get your lime, but if you’re a part of hip hop and a child of hip hop, then you will always be a part of hip hop.
Lil Mama
Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.
F. Gary Gray
For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.
Ryan Lewis
Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n’ roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.
John Legend
You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad ’90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.
Jenny Lewis
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn’t like that very much.
Barbara Corcoran
When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don’t weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
Roy Blount, Jr.
I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.
Coolio
I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there’s a few international artists I wouldn’t mind working with – like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the U.K. hip hop scene.
Lupe Fiasco
Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There’s plenty of room. The KP train is fun.
Katy Perry
I’d love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don’t know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients. I love hip hop.
Erik Hassle
Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?
Elana Meyers
I say that I do soul, R&B music. I have so many influences, from Billie Holiday, Nina Simone to Stevie Wonder and Prince and even Al Green and Bjork. And a lot of hip hop music has influenced me a lot – you know – De La Soul and Digital Underground and A Tribe Called Quest.
Goapele
‘Music Hop’ in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.
Alex Trebek
Eminem is a major star. Em and JAY-Z have achieved things that I have never came close to achieving in my life. They are both major stars in Hip Hop. And to top it off, they are both very lyrical.
Big Daddy Kane
It’s not about being super famous. My first goal was to do what I’m passionate about – dance, hip hop, and R&B – but I also wanted to support my family and friends and create opportunities for me and people I believe in. It makes everything I do meaningful.
Jay Park
I was born in Hip Hop. That’s all I ever needed.
KRS-One
You can’t afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.
John Stockton
I’m 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I’m not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
Patti LaBelle
I love ‘Real Housewives.’ I love ‘Love & Hip Hop.’ I love HGTV. I love a good Guy Fieri marathon on Food Network. I like comfort TV.
Wendy Williams
I’ve always been adventurous – my wife calls me ‘the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter’ – if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.
Paul Wall
Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do ‘Hamilton’ first in Hollywood. They would have told him, ‘The forefathers weren’t Latino or black. They didn’t speak in hip hop.’ That would never had gotten going in Hollywood ever. But theater let Lin-Manuel him do it, and he created an incredible masterpiece.
John Leguizamo
We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We’re all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.
Grandmaster Flash
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It’s anybody’s music. It’s what you make of it. That’s for anything you do in life.
Yelawolf
I’m not sure you can lindy hop to ‘We’re All In This Together,’ but I’m sure the nuns would welcome Zac Efron round for tea!
Helen George
From Dickens’s cockneys to Salinger’s phonies, from Kerouac’s beatniks to Cheech and Chong’s freaks, and on to hip hop’s homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.
Christopher Moore
I am a pop and R&B singer. I’m not necessarily an Indian singer or musician. I sing in English, and the music I do blends hip hop, pop, R&B, and soul.
Jay Sean
'In The Heights' was my favorite show, so hip hop is so

‘In The Heights’ was my favorite show, so hip hop is something that’s really close to my heart, but aside from the hip hop, there are so many wondrous things about it.
Joshua Henry
What I don’t like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
Steve Coogan
Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one’s authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is an attitude – even an aptitude.
KRS-One
It’s good to have somebody who is there to see you day-to-day, even hop into some runs with you.
Mary Cain
I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.
Son Heung-min
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
Afrika Bambaataa
I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I’ve done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day.
John Searles
Battling is therapeutic for Hip Hop, but you can’t take it serious. I mean, you got to take it because when you’re preparing your material for your opponent but when it affects your heart or when you let it get too personal… you got to have fun with it.
Jadakiss
Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one’s true self.
KRS-One
I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop – all these genres that get slapped under the ‘soul’ genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn’t fit comfortably in either world.
Patrick Stump
I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.
Frank Dukes
I’m really excited about ‘Love & Hip Hop.’
Chanel West Coast
My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I’ve broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; ‘Dad I love you,’ that is what means the most to me.
Tito Ortiz
I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I’ve seen them do it with hip hop when it should have been acknowledged. It was already penetrating mass levels of culture and radio, and yet they wouldn’t give it a proper category.
Steve Stoute
By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop’s critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
Michael Eric Dyson
The ‘chinked out’ style is a school of hip hop – that’s the way I like to think of it – that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
Wang Leehom
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it’s not good at all.
Chris Lowe
If you don’t hop aboard the change train, you’re gonna get derailed.
Joe Flaherty
I like jazz, rock n’ roll, some hip hop – I can’t think of any music I don’t like.
B. B. King
If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop.
Troy Carter
It’s important to love in hip hop.
Nipsey Hussle
How can I tell my daughter when she grows up to aspire to be what she wants to be if I am too scared to hop back in the ring because of what some people have said about me?
Sonny Bill Williams
‘TTM’ started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing. When I recorded the song, I liked it a lot, and I figured, instead of them paying me to do this, I’d rather just use this for my project, and we can just get money together.
PnB Rock