'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives. — Mike D Copy Share Image
East Coast, West Coast, all that needs to cease. Everyone wants hip-hop to be this big empire, but we're not going to… — Da Brat Copy Share Image
The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't… — Drake Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so… — Utkarsh Ambudkar Copy Share Image
Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I started to wonder where a lot… — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever,… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but… — Steven Sater Copy Share Image
There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing.… — Logic Copy Share Image
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses...… — SonReal Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has always been speaking about the way your brain is manipulated by stress and struggle because hip-hop is borne from struggle. — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Among all the music genres, I think hip hop is the most resonant form of music which can stimulate my creative inspiration.… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell, But the black is back, and it's bound to sell. Picture us coolin'… — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to something that's a little bit left - Korean R&B, South African hip-hop. I'm really curious about my… — Masego Copy Share Image
We wound up taking my enterprise inside marketing, branding, management, finances. We went in there [Sisterhood of Hip Hop show] and taught… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
When I was still back in Cameroon, because I didn't know English, I used to listen to French rap all the time… — Joel Embiid Copy Share Image
She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So… — Positive K Copy Share Image
Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they're geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
In 'Losing My Cool,' I argue repeatedly that it is a terrible lie, which has been foisted on us and sold to… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never… — Redman Copy Share Image
That's when we, that's when we, that's when we ride. That's when we, that's when we ride on these bitches. That's when… — Hollywood Undead Copy Share Image
We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
A lot of us have classical and jazz training, and it would be hard for us to work with a hip-hop artist… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I think that's one thing that hinders hip-hop and I think when everybody tries to be the same... That's why people look… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid I give it a rivet, hold… — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
If you just want a comfortable life, the awards, and pats on the back then you play Christian Hip Hop safe. Because… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
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