I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

— Rakim

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when…

— Noel Gallagher

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just…

— Jam Master Jay

Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper…

— Jay-Z

When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What…

— Common

I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it's like to be real and the social ills that we face,…

— Killer Mike

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my…

— Galcher Lustwerk

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

— Corbin Bleu

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the…

— George Clinton

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

— SonReal

I liked hip-hop, wanted to do rap, and wanted to stand on a large stage. If you look at it in another angle... it's…

— Kim Nam-joon

For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people,…

— Chuck D

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

— Afrika Bambaataa

If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced…

— KRS-One