I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop…

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew…

— G-Eazy

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it…

— Caroline Polachek

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

— Jo Brand

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is…

— Jamie Foxx

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have…

— Kanye West

I'm a Hip Hop artist, but I understand why some people are confused about that because a lot of people have a very narrow…

— Everlast

Kanye is my favorite hip hop artist of all time.

— Jimmie Allen

I tell you this once, hip hop is not dead. Change gon come just like Barack said.

— Jadakiss

My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.

— El-P

I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that when they…

— Nate Burleson

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 just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera…

— Pauly Shore

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 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

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

— Wyclef Jean