We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had no Eazy-E, you got no N.W.A., no Dr. Dre, no Ice Cube, no Tupac Death Row years... no Bone… — Too Short Copy Share Image
Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them, Others try to block the memories and just delete them. But I keep… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I've always done music to push people to get them to get uncomfortable in their seat so they could wrestle with things.… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
All forms are complex once you get to a really high level, and jazz and hip-hop are so connected. In hip-hop, you… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I mistakably paid respect and condolences to the wrong Beastie Boy member King Ad-Rock when it should have been MCA. In light… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
When I am performing live, I walk into a room, and I just try to get a feel for the vibe, and… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do -… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids -… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
I don't feel that Hip Hop is mine, I feel like I have a pass in this thing of ours that we… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Me and Frosted went to get a drink. But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think. She ordered… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As I said I mean the substance is definitely missing from a lot of Hip Hop music. A lot of people are… — Diggy Simmons Copy Share Image
I want to be the bridge. I embrace it. I don't mind being a leader. I don't mind opening the doors. I… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz guy and a Bruce Springsteen guy. So I wanted something more current, and edgier, and angrier. So I asked… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I've always been able to write rhymes and that would be like when you consult with your girl. When I'm mad and… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
I just go in and do the best that I can at whatever I'm doin'. I custom make things for each artist… — Dr Dre Copy Share Image
Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I hear all the big department stores like Macy's and Bloomingdale's in the U.S. playing hard hip-hop records to the shoppers, like… — Skepta Copy Share Image
New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we… — Phife Dawg Copy Share Image
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