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
I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my… — Gold Panda 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
Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family,… — Steven Van Zandt 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 am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke… — Patrick Stump 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
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
I never go to the Grammys. I just never go. I don't know if I care enough, and I went because my… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very… — John L. Parker Jr Copy Share Image
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,… — KRS-One 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
Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's… — Ryan Lewis 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
If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop. — Donnis Copy Share Image
I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our… — David Banner Copy Share Image
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but… — Rafael Casal Copy Share Image
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than… — Natalia Kills Copy Share Image
