Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider… — John Legend Copy Share Image
All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I… — Nas Copy Share Image
I love rap, and part of hip-hop culture is being excessive and absurd, and I can't be excessive and absurd without sounding… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
I actually listen to hip-hop to unwind, so that's really the music I use to clear my mind. I find listening to… — Hardwell Copy Share Image
In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can… — Nas Copy Share Image
Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle… — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I… — Common Copy Share Image
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western,… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the… — Rza Copy Share Image
I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
I do watch some kind of terrible shows on VH1, 'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,' 'Basketball Wives.' Those are like my guilty… — Brian Urlacher Copy Share Image
In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about… — Todd Boyd Copy Share Image
It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off… — Eminem Copy Share Image
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… — K-Maro Copy Share Image
I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my… — Toni Braxton Copy Share Image
I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is.… — Nas Copy Share Image
So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
They love the fact you made it, but hate the fact you got it. The stairway to heaven is packed...I'm in the… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
If I wasn't in the rap game, I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game. Because the streets is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do have a desire to bring a spiritual tone to the hip-hop community, which may force me to open a facility… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres… — Yuna Copy Share Image
You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just… — Ka Copy Share Image
I don't see the world as you see it. I see it as a game, and my aim is to complete it.… — MURS Copy Share Image
I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
We were basically making Spanish songs for the people that loved Hip Hop already but that knew Spanish because at that time,… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
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