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
You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk… — Moshe Kasher 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
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
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
Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Hip hop, this is church. Church, this is hip-hop. Y'all need to meet. I know you have some misconceptions about them, I… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected?… — Common Copy Share Image
My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal… — Adam Kluger Copy Share Image
Hip-hop culture itself has completely consumed everything involved in entertainment. When you think about basketball like the way those guys dress; I… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
I'm working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It's going to be a free online mixtape. I think it's going… — SonReal Copy Share Image
Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster… — Paul Oakenfold Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs, and I listened to hip-hop for the right reasons, which was to understand a culture that… — Jensen Karp Copy Share Image
November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world,… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata...my iPod is crazy. I like listening… — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can’t touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Coming up, you [got new] sneakers and you had to run outside to make sure everyone saw. It was on display. That's… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both… — Emilio Estefan Copy Share Image
Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get… — Lyor Cohen Copy Share Image
I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
![“I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster Flash and Pharrell. It's a different work process and there's a different take with how you produce [hip-hop].” quote by Paul Oakenfold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac4/paul-oakenfold-24516_albums_i-had-ice-cube-on-my-first-album-bunker_2344188.jpg)
![“Coming up, you [got new] sneakers and you had to run outside to make sure everyone saw. It was on display. That's just part of Hip Hop culture, part of the competitive spirit of Hip Hop. This is not new, I don't believe it's new.” quote by Pusha T](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/502/pusha-t-4455_believe_coming-up-you-got-new-sneakers-and-you-h_681159.jpg)
![“They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.” quote by Chuck D](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a71/chuck-d-2065_administration_they-us-administration-have-exploited-hi_132215.jpg)