In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of… — K-Maro Copy Share Image
The sunset looks beautiful over the projects... What a shame, it ain't the same where we stand at. If you look close,… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
As we continue our fight to advance civil rights and racial justice, we need to not only recognize but celebrate how Hip… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cats be talkin', "Bobby I ain't feelin' ya." But I bet if I was peelin' your cap back with a two-shot Dillinger… — RZA Copy Share Image
I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
Gonjasufi may sound at first like a rambling hip-hop crackpot, but there's more to the California rapper and singer than mere eccentricity:… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a… — Nas Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the mythos of Atlanta hip-hop, and it's something I grew up imagining. It was very interesting to get… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like 'Clockers' to playing a doctor… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
My forte is the music. But obviously if ya don't keep up with the business, then your kinda doing it for nothing.… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made.… — Moby Copy Share Image
People will less and less need to put an identity on genres, such as "hip hop," "electronica" and so forth. That's what… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
The reason that I like 'Game of Thrones' is because it's based on all these royal families. And it's cutthroat - just… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold' Jumped… — Eminem Copy Share Image
My favorite singer is Canton Jones, a gospel hip-hop artist - when I'm on the bus going to a game, I listen… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
Eminem is a major star. Em and JAY-Z have achieved things that I have never came close to achieving in my life.… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate, as the great will dominate straight to the state Of reignin', gainin'...So… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A… — Rza Copy Share Image
When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that.… — Cardi B Copy Share Image
There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a… — No I.D Copy Share Image
Hip-hop gives you so much room to be animated. I'm a theater kid as well, so I like to create characters. I… — Doechii Copy Share Image
I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail. In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.… — Common Copy Share Image
As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P.… — B.o.B Copy Share Image
Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of reggae music, a lot of Caribbean, a lot of gospel, a lot of rock, a lot… — Ro James Copy Share Image
Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube,… — F. Gary Gray Copy Share Image
It's not about the way you look It's not about your face It's all about the way you think It's all about… — Mac Lethal Copy Share Image
I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I like my R&B, my hip-hop. But I'm old school, I don't like a lot of new stuff. Though I do like… — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week,… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
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