Perm in your hair or even a curly weave, Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve. I tell you come… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang Drugs slang in the drug… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids… — Mike D Copy Share Image
You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one… — Nick Robinson Copy Share Image
'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in… — Nas Copy Share Image
Hip-hop I never really got really into mainly just because I'm not a big fan of rap. I do like R&B artists… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the… — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see someone… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya: You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now. Block the… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor… — Ivica Zubac Copy Share Image
Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing.… — Nas Copy Share Image
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
These soliloquies explain our people's lack of stability You keepin it real, but ain't got a clue what reality really be See… — Ras Kass Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
L.A. hip-hop is so different; it's so diverse. Out here, it's, like, funk-inspired; it's, like, '70s-skating-rink-inspired at times. It's Zapp-and-Roger-inspired; it's house-party-era-inspired. — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is,… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies,… — Common Copy Share Image
Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Rihanna is so into rock, and she gives me an empty canvas to work with. I get to do wild solos and… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
When people question me about whether something is hip-hop, I ask them, 'Does it sound hard? Does it hit home? Is it… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
A couple years ago it was really hard for me to sing, because there's so much pressure in hip-hop to be a… — SonReal Copy Share Image
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy… — Phife Dawg Copy Share Image
I think with that connection, that there's with the Hip Hop is a young man's game thing, it really isn't. It's for… — B-Real Copy Share Image
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
They tell me 'find God' like I don't know where He at. And if He lost, then why we followin' Him? Just… — Fashawn Copy Share Image
Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Hip-hop was born of people who did not have a voice. They were not heard. And those people exist and are a… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
Y'all really think Ms. Shakur, or Ms. Wallace, Or Ms. Mizell from out in Hollis Wouldn't exchange the love and fame Attached… — Kelvin Mercer Copy Share Image
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just… — Kim Deal Copy Share Image
I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
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