I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once…

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

— Vanilla Ice

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

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.

— TyDi

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that…

— Cornel West

I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.

— Phife Dawg

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

— Wiz Khalifa

I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous…

— Ice Cube

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music…

— Win Butler

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

— Bakari Kitwana

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

— KRS-One

When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for…

— KRS-One

There are a lot of hip-hoppers who play golf.

— Scarface

I find it fascinating how hip hop as a culture mirrors every mythology from the beginning of mythology. The concept of the single mother…

— KRS-One

I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability…

— Peter Beinart

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

— Peter Thiel