Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but…

My era was '90s Carhartt-and-Timberlands hip-hop. That's my rock n' roll.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

— Russell Simmons

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this…

— Mos Def

I just love experimenting sounds. I guess the only person I can really compare it to is Kid Rock - I always knew that…

— Jelly Roll

I like hip-hop and rock music.

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

— Miguel

I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your…

— Talib Kweli

No matter what though, there's always rock & roll. There's rock 'n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock & roll in pop music, there's rock…

— John Varvatos

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

— Ian Astbury

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