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I grew up listening to everything outside hip-hop. Hip-hop came later in my life.

— Akon

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

— Hiro Murai

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

— Rose Byrne

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it…

— Moshe Kasher

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.'…

— Jenny Lewis

I'm still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don't even know if I'm making hip hop anymore.

— Yung Lean

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

— J Balvin

When I started, I was very unsure of who I was. There were a lot of things in the songs that I didn't realize…

— Melanie Martinez

I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop fans.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

I love hip-hop, so what I do is done with respect, but there was a very closed-minded attitude toward live instruments and music that…

— Everlast

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.

— Sean Paul

I grew up in the suburbs, and I listened to hip-hop for the right reasons, which was to understand a culture that was beyond…

— Jensen Karp