Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube,… — F. Gary Gray Copy Share Image
Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Until black culture as a whole is effectively disentangled from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension the street, we are not… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece… — Drake Copy Share Image
It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. — John Cena Copy Share Image
You and your friends...always together, No time for the B-I-G, so I'm O-U-T. The sex was great, but the headaches I can't… — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger! — Bushwick Bill Copy Share Image
After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims… — Jay Electronica Copy Share Image
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Well, I was doing platinum albums back-to-back with Jive when they were the hottest hip-hop label. There was a time when Jive… — Too Short Copy Share Image
If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up… — Rennie Harris Copy Share Image
So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Wrestling has grown so big... it's almost a culture. And it's a culture of all types of vibes, just like hip-hop has… — Jam Master Jay Copy Share Image
Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying. — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If a hip-hop artist can get on stage and entertain an arena full of 30,000 people and keep their attention for 45… — Redman Copy Share Image
My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois. — Sean Paul Copy Share Image
Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can… — Nas Copy Share Image
I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
It's a hell of a relief. Especially for a dude like me who is so hands on and I like to pretty… — Styles P Copy Share Image
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces. — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
My radio, believe me, I like it loud, I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd. Walkin' down the… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music, — Akon Copy Share Image
I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are… — Manika Copy Share Image
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
From a musical standpoint, I was inspired by '90s hip hop, with a lot of drums and the tempos. I'm always inspired… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Everything has a price... No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life. I understood later that it's all about paper, Everything… — O.C Copy Share Image
My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
