But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with… — Giuseppe Zanotti Copy Share Image
I find that people in American are often much more purist. If you're into hip-hop, you're totally into hip-hop - you wear… — Kieran Hebden 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
I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big… — Goldlink 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
The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Rap was forbidden with the people who were interviewing us and the shows that I was getting [booked on], and I had… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Dabbing started with us - QC the label - Jose Guapo, Migos, Skippa Da Flippa, PeeWee Longway. When we performed, we just… — Rich the Kid Copy Share Image
You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
I think people see me definitely as a "gangsta" rapper, and what people love about me is when they meet me and… — Sheek Louch 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
Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it… — Bocafloja 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
I feel like you can't stop me now, I'm tighter now, More of a writer now, Than a rapper now, Got me… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I have a duty to myself to do the best that I can do at anything that I'm doing. And right now… — Dr Dre Copy Share Image
U can see me on my presences am standing here as a legend even on this moment am still a hip-hop servant… — Kearabetswe Aka Blazing Kay Copy Share Image
What earns my respect is... I love great lyricists, artists that can create incredible rhymes or incredible songs. The same thing goes… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but… — Steven Sater Copy Share Image
You already past 21 and you still talking about "I'ma be a rapper." You ain't did one show, niggas ain't seen you… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever,… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something,… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
Whether you like Kanye or not, there has been a character assassination against this guy. You don't have to agree with everything… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
I do have a desire to bring a spiritual tone to the hip-hop community, which may force me to open a facility… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and… — Drake Copy Share Image
Music is my life, and I love it so much, I love everythin I do too. I work very hard to be… — Juan Rimas Copy Share Image
My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the… — Miri Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
Future's the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there's a pack of beats… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Nas is someone who can communicate with the streets and can still keep it real in terms of being human, he doesn't… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the… — Quavo Copy Share Image
Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. As far as my… — Justin Timberlake 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
![“Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10 to 12 hours a day. [Kanye] loves learning about shoes, both the design and construction, and we’ve tried to design something together. In a couple of months, he could…” quote by Giuseppe Zanotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/395/giuseppe-zanotti-47764_collections_kanye-is-always-here-in-my-factory-in-th_897935.jpg)
![“Rap was forbidden with the people who were interviewing us and the shows that I was getting [booked on], and I had kind of crossed over. So Jerry [Heller, who managed N.W.A.] would tell me, 'Do not say you're a rapper, always say you're R&B.'” quote by Michel'le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b9/michel-le-8055_forbidden_rap-was-forbidden-with-the-people-who-we_2341695.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)
