It's important to love in hip hop.

I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.

— Coolio

Early '90s hip hop is my thing.

— Dylan Alcott

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's…

— Naima Adedapo

I'm really excited about 'Love & Hip Hop.'

— Chanel West Coast

I would have to be traditional and say that my favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me…

— El-P

I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and…

— Estelle

You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

— G-Eazy

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door…

— Sxip Shirey

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other.…

— Grandmaster Flash

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small, rural town…

— Steve Stoute

Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups…

— Briana Evigan

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies,…

— Michael Eric Dyson