Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you. — Prodigy Copy Share Image
When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. — Ice T Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lyrically I'm supposed to represent, I'm not only the client, I'm the player president — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
You know, hip hop is a big ferris wheel that goes around and you've just gotta be able to maintain yourself while… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
I'm living three dreams: Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's. Cause we can't get along, no resolution? 'Til we drown all these… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me. — Eminem Copy Share Image
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism. — Doechii Copy Share Image
If Kanye was not in the equation, I literally wouldn't even be here. His music pushed hip-hop - the man is a… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
We still wading in the water... Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water. Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like… — Doug E. Fresh Copy Share Image
The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my… — Jenna Dewan Copy Share Image
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it.… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Chicano Rap is a genre in its own and its got its own fan base and it's respected. When I grew up… — Snow Tha Product Copy Share Image
We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign... — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Every bag, every blouse, every bracelet, comes with a price tag, baby, face it. — Pusha T Copy Share Image
Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
If you don't like me you can be the next to go, shoot yourself, Plaxico — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the game is all bugged out, Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out. — Daniel Dumile Copy Share Image
There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop. — Biz Markie Copy Share Image
My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'. — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
She was on the move, seein other dudes, I had to be the only one who didn't know. — Tank Copy Share Image
Fresh dress, like a million bucks, Put on the bally shoes and the fly green socks — Slick Rick Copy Share Image
We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
