There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet, I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted. — Sadat X Copy Share Image
I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I… — Rag'n'Bone Man Copy Share Image
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic… — Robert Glasper 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
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
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
Don't get me wrong - we love our hip-hop, but in its own context. Rap has no place in our music. Is… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I like somebody I can consider edgy, because, I also find that when people see me; the first thing they might think… — Jlin Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the… — Nas Copy Share Image
Since I've been in this industry, it's been a constant fight; "Oh, he's white, he's Cuban." "He's tryin' to do hip-hop and… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only… — Nikki Giovanni 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
Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em. Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em. They say, "Yo… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business. — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life. — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's… — Melvin Glover Copy Share Image
Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about. — Ice T Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music."… — Nas 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
