I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five… — Questlove Copy Share Image
America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so… — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since… — Matthew Morrison Copy Share Image
Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the… — KRS-One 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
I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece… — Drake Copy Share Image
Until black culture as a whole is effectively disentangled from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension the street, we are not… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Shawn Carter was born December 4th, Weighing in at 10 pounds, 8 ounces. He was the last of my 4 children, The… — Gloria Carter Spann Copy Share Image
And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the… — MURS Copy Share Image
Older generations can sometimes look down on today's hip hop but I refuse that mindset. I remember how hurt I was when… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
My obsession with hip-hop has given me an addiction to trainers, which are very much a young person's game, and I am… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of R&B happening today. There's the traditional, more soulful R&B that doesn't get the recognition that it deserves.… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
We fight every night, now that's not kosher. I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer, And wake up to be… — Extra P Copy Share Image
Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But… — Termanology Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger! — Bushwick Bill Copy Share Image
You and your friends...always together, No time for the B-I-G, so I'm O-U-T. The sex was great, but the headaches I can't… — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. — John Cena Copy Share Image
Wrestling has grown so big... it's almost a culture. And it's a culture of all types of vibes, just like hip-hop has… — Jam Master Jay Copy Share Image
My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois. — Sean Paul Copy Share Image
The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If a hip-hop artist can get on stage and entertain an arena full of 30,000 people and keep their attention for 45… — Redman Copy Share Image
I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions… — Q-Tip 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
People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying. — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold… — Chuck D 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
Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an… — Gza Copy Share Image
I love pop music... some hip hop... not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was… — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
The early '90s was the best time for hip-hop. The Cube's, the Snoop's, the Dre's - that was a golden time with… — DJ Yella Copy Share Image
Soup's on and I got a coupon. Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon. He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce... And… — Daniel Dumile Copy Share Image
I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I… — Statik Selektah Copy Share Image
Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack, And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap. — Common Copy Share Image
Because I am white, I feel like certain opportunities were thrown to me through all of the people from the white community… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music. — SZA Copy Share Image
