Hip Hop Saved My Life
"Hip-Hop Saved My Life" is a viral video single from Lupe Fiasco's second album, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool. The track features the lead singer of the Indie/Hip hop group, Nouveau Riche, Nikki Jean. Although the song had a music video, it achieved most of its popularity on the internet and through word of mouth- being an underground or "street single" with little radio airplay or advertisement.
Read more about Hip Hop Saved My Life: Content, Music Video, Chart Performance
Famous quotes containing the words saved my life, hip, hop, saved and/or life:
““I hate” from hate away she threw,
And saved my life, saying “not you.””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I stir my martinis with the screw,
four-inch and stainless steel,
and think of my hip where it lay
for four years like a darkness.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)