I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

I try hard to look hip but ladylike; current, but not like I'm trying to be 16.

— Morgan Fairchild

The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I just look at hip-hop as hip-hop, and Run-D.M.C. as Run-D.M.C. This is what I do.

— Rev. Run

When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom;…

— Rakim

It's so hard for cool people these days. They just don't want us to be hip.

— Wiz Khalifa

You want to up up hip hip hooray for you now you're the one that everyone talkes about the attention you're not getting it…

— Quicksand

I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - -…

— Richard Pryor

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're…

— Nas

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

— Jeff Foxworthy

...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on…

— Miles Davis

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

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that…

— Greg Giraldo

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

— Keke Palmer

Early '90s hip hop is my thing.

— Dylan Alcott

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

— Coolio