Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music… — Nas 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
When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had… — Boy George Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even… — Mayer Hawthorne 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
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop. — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made.… — Moby Copy Share Image
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of… — Skrillex 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
Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing… — Nas Copy Share Image
If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover… — Mike Shinoda 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
Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues. — Assata Shakur 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 got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop… — Pedro Winter Copy Share Image
So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman. — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7. — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
