I don't know what ya'll heard, but Hip Hop ain't dead.

When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.

— Rza

“Dead ain't gone, and gone ain't dead.”

— Steven E. Wedel

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music,

— Akon

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized…

— Billie Eilish

I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so…

— Rza

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didnt understand the concept of people talking over music.

— Akon

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Streetball ain't dead.

— Jadakiss

You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.

— Karen White

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Pimpin' ain't dead 'cause I be the life line.

— Lil Wayne

No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.

— Richard Pryor

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because…

— Wale

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

— KRS-One

When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

— Nas