Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses...… — SonReal Copy Share Image
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I'm a child of the 70's. R&B to me is Curtis Mayfield. Then a transition came in and I was part of… — D'wayne Wiggins Copy Share Image
I don't care who you talk about down south, Boosie gonna win. I'm the only one to put out a whole album,… — Lil Boosie Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin,… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing… — Tony DiSanto Copy Share Image
The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's… — K-Maro Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Hip is to know, it's a form of intelligence. To be hip is to be update and relevant. Hop is a form… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I'm lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I'm Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people… — Nas Copy Share Image
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is,… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop,… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside.… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because… — Miri Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
![“I don't care who you talk about down south, Boosie gonna win. I'm the only one to put out a whole album, with more songs, so I don't care who said what. The fans tell the truth. I got real fans - more fans than everybody, so Boosie gonna win [in Hip Hop Survivor: Down South Edition.].” quote by Lil Boosie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/21e/lil-boosie-4395_albums_i-don-t-care-who-you-talk-about-down-sou_39963.jpg)
![“The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.” quote by K-Maro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ad/k-maro-43512_culture_the-difference-is-that-they-europeans-do_1332120.jpg)
