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I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
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I try to take elements from all kinds of music. Even if I'm listening to anything off the wall, like Britney Spears,… — Metro Boomin Copy Share Image
We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out,… — Kat Dahlia Copy Share Image
As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where… — Madlib Copy Share Image
I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
I know that everyone has their own ideas about what the good life is, and hip hop has especially strong ideas about… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give… — Rakim Copy Share Image
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Bill Ward, when you hear his beats, he's not just playing a straight 4/4 beat; he's doing almost a hip-hop beat. There's… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
People also knew me for putting people up to hip-hop, so people knew I was heavy into hip-hop. But as for cyphers… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot… — Phife Dawg Copy Share Image
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I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The radio stations strayed away from the raw hip-hop that they were playing in the early 1990s. We were like, 'All this… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Prince, Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire and Parliament all had albums that sound different. I wanted to show, as a hip-hop… — DJ Premier 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
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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 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
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
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
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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
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
When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously,… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I say that I do soul, R&B music. I have so many influences, from Billie Holiday, Nina Simone to Stevie Wonder and… — Goapele Copy Share Image
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