I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter. — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you… — Eyedea Copy Share Image
So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was… — Nas Copy Share Image
My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it… — Rick Rubin 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
I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson.… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil'… — Ed O.G Copy Share Image
I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I… — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is…Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new… — Del tha Funkee Homosapien Copy Share Image
When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was… — Common Copy Share Image
The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand,… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I… — Galcher Lustwerk Copy Share Image
I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too. — Prefuse 73 Copy Share Image
Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music. — Donnis Copy Share Image
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step… — El-P Copy Share Image
I liked hip-hop, wanted to do rap, and wanted to stand on a large stage. If you look at it in another… — Kim Nam-joon Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you." — Ice T Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still… — Michael Isabella Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years, — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it. — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
