Hip-hop music was our life.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

— Nelly

Hip-hop music has been my programming. It's been my love. When I was a kid, hearing Eminem, G-Unit for the first time, I was…

— Jesse Rutherford

Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because we both…

— Amadou Bagayoko

I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure of an…

— El-P

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

I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the…

— Robert Glasper

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

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

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I love hip hop music and would do anything to help the culture blow up in China because it's been so underground. I just…

— Kris Wu

This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-hop. You can't say that just what I…

— Kendrick Lamar

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what…

— Yelawolf

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

— Patti LaBelle

Hip-hop music in general kind of revolves around singles, and I appreciate that mindset, but at the same time, I wanted to go beyond…

— Alexander Spit

I'm different than the normal NASCAR driver, I listen to hip-hop music.

— Denny Hamlin