Quotes on Hip Hop

If I wasn't in the rap game,_x000D_ _x000D_ I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game._x000D_ _x000D_ Because the streets is a short stop:_x000D_ _x000D_ Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.

Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die_x000D_ _x000D_ In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud_x000D_ _x000D_ I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped_x000D_ _x000D_ Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

All I need is one mic_x000D_ _x000D_ One beat, one stage_x000D_ _x000D_ One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page_x000D_ _x000D_ Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib_x000D_ _x000D_ One god to show me how to do things his son did.

Difficult takes a day_x000D_ _x000D_ Impossible takes a week_x000D_ _x000D_ I do this in my sleep

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier_x000D_ _x000D_ I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch,_x000D_ _x000D_ She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.