I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
I am a pop and R&B singer. I'm not necessarily an Indian singer or musician. I sing in English, and the music… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard! — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
Well, let me say this. It's ignorance. We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead… — MC Hammer 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
The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That's all it's about. — Kodie Shane Copy Share Image
Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the… — Nas Copy Share Image
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music,… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's… — Action Bronson Copy Share Image
Politics changes music most of the time. Ronald Reagan - you can kind of say that he made hip-hop what it was… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
I'm really not the biggest metal fan as it is. I'm more of a hard-street-punk kind of kid, but I also loved… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
You know, my era of DJing was the 90s. I think that was one of the best eras of music, period. From… — Lil Jon 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
Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B. — TyDi Copy Share Image
If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. — K'naan Copy Share Image
Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive. So the day some niggaz come for you,… — Xzibit Copy Share Image
I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane.… — Sean Kingston Copy Share Image
Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want. — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
When I think about Christian hip hop I think of an individual who is a Christian who is using hip hop to… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks, So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I… — Consequence Copy Share Image
She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily — Big Pun Copy Share Image
There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small… — Curtis Jackson 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
First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being… — John Cena Copy Share Image
But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop,… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. — Afrojack 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
