I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it…

I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some…

— Jim Jarmusch

Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely…

— One9

Every artist can actually say that, that the overseas community appreciates the culture of hip-hop more, really, rather than over here. So it's fun…

— Redman

Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.

— KRS-One

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

— Chuck D

I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that…

— Simon de Pury

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

— Cornel West

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

— Nipsey Hussle

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of…

— K-Maro

If hip-hop is dead, then let it rest in peace and let's move on to something else.

— Black Thought

They told me Hip-Hop dead, so late night, I'm at the cemetary diggin' his grave out, These old niggaz washed up, played out, Whip…

— French Montana

Nah, I'm not one of those 'hip-hop is dead' people. I just like different artists. I never look at it as one entity. I've…

— Remy Ma

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

— Nas

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

— Aesop Rock

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

— Erykah Badu