Lil Mama Quotes

Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.

I love hip-hop, and everybody knows that.

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.

I've always been totally enamored by hip-hop. I wouldn't say I liked it exclusively growing up. It was, like, that and alt-rock. But I always preferred it. It set a tone for everything I wanted to do in life.

I'm a fan of hip-hop as well. I like everybody who keeps the game on their toes and keep it pushing.

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

I'm a prime example of a person who loves hip-hop, and I will defend it till the day I die.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.

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.

I'm definitely not making fun of hip-hop.

I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

I like to say hip-hop was born when I was in my mother's womb.

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

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

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

I was in high school and college as hip-hop was really sort of coming into its own as a, you know, creative force, as a sort of cultural voice. And it really spoke to me.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.