Street Language Quotes

Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.

Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.

That's the kinda dude I was lookin fo & yes you'll get slapped if you lookin hoe

My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle.

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.

When we came out, they just labelled us 'ratchet music' cos we said 'ratchet' a lot. Ratchet means that's it's ghetto, but I would just call the music we're making just good music.

I don't gang bang but I'll bang tha thang!

Hip-hop is as much an attitude and perspective as it is a music form.

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.

If I'm speaking to the streets and for the streets, they gon' respond. I don't even be thinking about blowing up.

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

The language of the street is always strong.

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.

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

It might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We're all role models more than athletes because athletes don't wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don't walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We're closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.

One of the first things that my English teacher told when I began studying in New York was, "You're here because if you pick it up from the street, not everyone speaks good English." And it happens all the time, anywhere. If you pick up Spanish from the streets, you're not going to be able to speak it correctly.