I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I used to say, if Jim were alive today he'd never be clean and sober but I'm changing that answer because Eminem… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back… — RZA Copy Share Image
Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make… — Chad Hugo Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
My experience is that white kids love hip-hop, and brown and black kids love rock music. That shows that brown kids -… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Drake can do that well, he can have the hottest tune every summer for the next 20 years, and that's how he… — Kano Copy Share Image
My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
If you call 'Rapper's Delight' an old-school record, I agree with you. If you call Sugar Hill Gang old school, I agree… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever… — Nas Copy Share Image
Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a… — Kirko Bangz Copy Share Image
People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal.… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
I feel like my place is to connect hip-hop... with the youth, the older, the middle. Just everybody that's listening to me.… — Lil B Copy Share Image
What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people, this is the level that things could be… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I always laugh when I listen to my old stuff. I was just trying way too much back then. Doing too many… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it. So I just wanted to show the point of… — Simon Rex Copy Share Image
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me… — Wale Copy Share Image
I think that 'Pinata' album is going to stand the test of time. It's going to be a moment in hip-hop, whether… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Being a part of this whole female rap movement, wave, whatever you want to call it, is so cool. You've got so… — Latto Copy Share Image
No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music.… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
Everybody comments that I'm white. I'm surprised I haven't gotten more criticism for it. I'm always expecting any day now it's gonna… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If we actually supported these gay artists and pumped money behind them the same way they pump money behind these divas, a… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing.… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
You have to have a balance, and I think that people get upset about Hip-Hop and say that it's dead because there… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
They call me Freestyle Freddy and I'm always ready to rap. Even when I wake up from a nap. Economic devastation's kinda… — Fredric Brandt Copy Share Image
I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
A lot people don't know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with… — Valee Copy Share Image
The best show I went to was probably Curren$y. I went to see him when I was at LSU. He's a mellow… — Tyrann Mathieu Copy Share Image
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