Hip-hop to me right now is really easy listening. It's very easy listening, like there's nothing abrasive about it. There's no album… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
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
I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon 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
The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people… — Pusha T 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
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture. — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas. — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now,… — Big Pun Copy Share Image
There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
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
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
Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Why is the world round? Why do the suckas bite? Why do the freaks come out at night? Why they paint Jesus… — Lee Majors Copy Share Image
What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the… — Nas Copy Share Image
My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
