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TODAY IN HIP HOP HISTORY:
DMX DROPPED HIS THIRD LP ‘…AND THEN THERE WAS X’ 22 YEARS AGO.

The legendary Motswako group Morafe is back with a new single Utlwa. Get it Now.

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There's Fun in being serious with Music!

The music maestro Oliver Mtukudzi is no more. The nation has lost one of it's gallant sons, a man of integrity, a composer, producer, an idol, the music guru. He was everything to music 66 albums to his name 66 years of age what a milestone. Rest in peace.

These Are a Few Famous, and Inspirational Music Quotes We love here at Street Hop. Enjoy.

“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” ― Keith Richards

“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.” ― Billy Joel

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley

“The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”― Jane Austen

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” ― William Shakespeare

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley

“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” ― W.H. Auden

“Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ― Victor Hugo

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ― Arthur O’Shaughnessy

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”― Charles Darwin

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius

“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein