I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When…

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

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of…

— will.i.am

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

God is never late, we're just impatient.

— LeCrae

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for…

— Roxanne Shante

Couples Therapy' is pretty big for me because it's opening the door to a new audience - a hip-hop following, which I feel is…

— Carmen Carrera

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

— Nas

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

If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American.

— KRS-One

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

— Brandon T. Jackson

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

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

— KRS-One

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic…

— John Legend

If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been…

— John Cena

Ghostface, when it comes to hip-hop, was one of my favorite rappers and definitely one of my favorites in the Wu-Tang. He's also a…

— No I.D