You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is…

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

— Charles Barkley

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

— Yelawolf

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes…

— Jess Row

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in…

— Curtis Jackson

I don't care who you talk about down south, Boosie gonna win. I'm the only one to put out a whole album, with more…

— Lil Boosie

Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul…

— Larry Bakersfield

Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

— Thomas Bangalter

I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that…

— Immortal Technique

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

— Rakim

I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not…

— Nas

Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ...…

— Tony DiSanto

For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the…

— El-P

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way…

— Jay-Z

By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something…

— Talib Kweli

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through…

— Hoodie Allen