Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff. — Houston Alexander Copy Share Image
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's… — Slaine Copy Share Image
It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. — Nas Copy Share Image
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I think I've been able to witness Canadian hip-hop get a lot more respect from our own people. I think some of… — JD Era Copy Share Image
I just got a chance to see strong tenacity and a desire to be on top from some young women who have… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just… — Kim Deal Copy Share Image
15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things… — Drake Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
I hate to see somebody get locked up, especially someone as talented as Lil Wayne. You know Wayne is a strong figure… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate… — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball. — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
How much for the bottle, put it on my tab. Hop out like a model all them foreign tags. Get so drunk… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I… — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The borders and boundaries of hip-hop have been broken all over the world. There's a great scene everywhere you go. — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point,… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
As an artist when you come into [hip hop] you don't know nothing really. You just know what you do and it's… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for.… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image
I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long.… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
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