Dope Quotes by Nicki Minaj, Eric Benet, Kanye West, Sarah Vowell, Stephen King, John Carlos and many others.
The ‘80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
Jermaine Dupri is a b-boy, and he’s dope.
But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don’t worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It’s been a long century, and we’ve had enough of them.
America‘s unique ability to change and be super flexible is pretty dope, man. It’s pretty incredible. And that’s what I want to contribute to.
To be in a position to help my family out and change the trajectory of the Wagner family it’s a pretty dope feeling.
There are a lot of young artists that are dope.
I’m pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.
I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They’re probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It’s true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn’t mean we are all jumping into bed together.
I feel it’s important for the geeks to have a voice. ‘Dope’ is going to give a lot of people a new perspective.
I pissed away over ten million dollars
On dope and crack
I passed away deader than a door knob
But now I’m back
On dope and crack
I passed away deader than a door knob
But now I’m back
Dr. [ Peter R.] Breggin’s book can show you how to take your child back from the authoritarian state that wants to dope your child up because he may be misbehaving.
I have really dope parents, and they happen to both really love, love music – they’re huge music fans.
I love Prince, thought he was super dope.
I like making dope music.
I’m a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in ’96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, ‘Who is this guy? He’s dope!’ First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, ‘Eh.’ He started to get really successful. He wasn’t ‘mine‘ anymore.
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We’d pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we’d put it together in ways that would work and be different.
I always wanted to do a record called, ‘The Three J’s,’ because you got me, Jay Rock, you got J. Cole, and you got Jay Z. I thought that it would be dope. I said, if I couldn’t get Jay Z, we’ll get Jay Electronica.
I’m not a hater, I’m not one of those people. I do think it’s dope when people get recognized for whatever it is that they do, so more power to everybody who got nominated.
I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it’s dope, that is all that matters with me.
I’ve got a dope sense of humor, brah.
As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do – my plan in life – was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high… smoke dope. And that’s really what I’m doing.
If something’s dope, you got to go with it.
I want to make sure that I sign dope artists, old and new, just to make sure that we come up with something new and creative.
You can’t please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you’re gonna have your fans.
The popularity of ‘2 Dope Queens‘ just showed there was like a hunger for new stories because we have alternative comics on our show that wouldn’t normally be featured on, like, a white guy’s comedy show.
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.
I don’t think I’m alarmist. I’m more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you’ve got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?
I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I’m not a professional athlete and I don’t have access to the good stuff.
I remember I rapped for a friend, and my friend really encouraged me and was blown away, like ‘Whoa, that was dope!’ Ever since then, I kept going.
When you’re a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to – it’s like, I can’t be all of those things at once. I’m a human being.
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
I am a dope dude.
If you’re a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I’m watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.
‘Something Good‘ is a feel-good song. A reminder that you’re dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world.
I’m all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that’s dope. I’ve got a daughter, and I think that’s amazing. But when you’re specifically picking on guys, that’s when it’s not right. ‘No Scrubs’ is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.
Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.
Stevie Nicks is dope.
I consider ‘Dope’ a part of the new mainstream.
Jeremih is a dope artist.
Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that’s all that I want
I just want to be remembered as a dope MC. As somebody who really covered a lot of ground and became internationally known.
With ‘2 Dope Queens,’ we get the opportunity to love and enjoy each other and have fun being best friends and being women of color and talking about our personal experience. Also, we give an opportunity to elevate voices for many different people that otherwise would not get such a large platform.
It’s dope to be an artist and to have that wall of separation, but also I feel like social media is there for what it’s there for. I have a group chat with about 40 fans who I communicate with on the regular.
If you are an addict yourself, how are you going to fight drugs? That’s why the dope test is compulsory for Punjab Police personnel and youngsters joining, regardless of what newspapers are saying that women should be exempted.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
I’d be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner’s, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn’t even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.
Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it’s absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.
I think it speaks to people in 2015, right now. We address real situations. It’s real life! Everything that happens in ‘Dope’ could happen today.
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
Cause my life is dope, and I do dope sh*t
So, you play today! You don’t worry about what’s gone, ’cause that’s already gone and you can’t bring what’s gone back. It doesn’t happen that way. So, every day‘s a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope.
Before games and sometimes practice, I like something with a dope beat. Like Rick Ross, when he’s just like, ‘RUH!,’ all that stuff.
Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
Radio’s a scary thing for me. It’s dope to be on there.
Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin’ dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn’t want to work in nightclubs.
Every song that is a Hopsin song, I 100 percent made it. Nobody helped me. There was no producer to say, ‘Hey, put the beat like this… ‘ It was all me. If the song was wack, then the song was wack. If it’s dope, it is what it is.
Whenever a dope artist comes out of nowhere, the first thing you do is try and compare it to stuff until you realise that that artist is just them, and eventually those comparisons will stop.
Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That’s dope, word.
At some point, I started listening to music a little differently. Rather than being like, ‘Yo, this is dope – who made this?’ it started being like, ‘I wish I made this.’
My kids are really dope. I was just at home in Chicago, and my daughter Brittany was interviewing me. It was like I was on ‘Oprah.’
I think Lil Wayne is definitely a dope rapper.
When somebody tells me, ‘The Source magazine had you in the Top 5 emcees,’ I’m like, ‘Okay, that’s cool.’ The other four may not be who I consider dope emcees.
Solange is just dope. I’m a huge fan.
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
I want to impact the world and the culture in a positive way, spread super dope messages and help people through my music.
Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn’t about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that.
I dream of collaborating with Q-Tip and Timbaland – it’s all producers. I’d really like to work with Drake and DRAM. The Weeknd would be dope. The list goes on and on. If Michael Jackson were alive, I’d love to collaborate with him.
This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship
Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition
And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home
Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition
And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home
I don’t really picture myself picking up a bunch of new young fans, but there’s a young generation in hip-hop that I think can use their voice in a more positive way and still be dope. And, if I can show them a way to do it, I think that would be great.
If anyone wants to know what the definition of ‘dope’ means, it’s: ‘Definition of Public Enemy.’
I’m super into their trench coats. I’ve been wearing them for a while. Even my mom, she loves them. Definitely working with Burberry is a dope collaboration, just a good opportunity.
My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn’t give me those insights.
‘Love, Simon‘ is incredibly dope, but that’s one specific experience, and I would love to see more versions of that story being told or other stories that we haven’t even seen yet from the LGBTQIA community.
Put from you the belief that ‘I have been wronged‘, and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
With ‘Dope Walk,’ I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That’s how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and ‘Chicken Noodle Soup‘-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.
I’m in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about “character issues.”
There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn’t a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
If you’re different, or if you think something about you is just weird and out of the ordinary, I just think that’s so dope.
Kali Uchis is a dope person. Her voice, her style – she’s so unique.
The TekLife crew are super dope.
If you think I’m a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that.
I’d swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I’d hate it. I wouldn’t even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I’d play it in the goddam closet.
Washington D.C. and the entire DMV area are very dope places because they’re such musically-inclined areas.
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Tom Cruise is dope.
People are broad-minded. They’ll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him.
People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you’re hurting people and things around you, but when I haven’t talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain’t my title…my bad habits aren’t my title. My strengths and talents are my title.
I’m always thinking of ideas and sounds. I am waiting on something new and dope to inspire me.
If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.
You can’t be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don’t lose the ones you love trying to please the world
I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he’s a lot more unrecognizable. He’s not a gimpy gorilla like me.
