Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

I like somebody I can consider edgy, because, I also find that when people see me; the first thing they might think about me,…

— Jlin

I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan…

— Ice T

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

— Yelawolf

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 feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your…

— Talib Kweli

Nobody's gonna ever like all my music but if your talking about the core hip-hop fans that like hardcore rap, they're still gonna feel…

— SonReal

I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated…

— Zachary Levi

I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

— Yelawolf

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

— Rakim

I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not…

— Nas

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

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

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

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

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