I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music.… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
Being a part of this whole female rap movement, wave, whatever you want to call it, is so cool. You've got so… — Latto Copy Share Image
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me… — Wale Copy Share Image
I think that 'Pinata' album is going to stand the test of time. It's going to be a moment in hip-hop, whether… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it. So I just wanted to show the point of… — Simon Rex Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I always laugh when I listen to my old stuff. I was just trying way too much back then. Doing too many… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people, this is the level that things could be… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I feel like my place is to connect hip-hop... with the youth, the older, the middle. Just everybody that's listening to me.… — Lil B Copy Share Image
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal.… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a… — Kirko Bangz Copy Share Image
People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever… — Nas Copy Share Image
If you call 'Rapper's Delight' an old-school record, I agree with you. If you call Sugar Hill Gang old school, I agree… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Drake can do that well, he can have the hottest tune every summer for the next 20 years, and that's how he… — Kano Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
My experience is that white kids love hip-hop, and brown and black kids love rock music. That shows that brown kids -… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make… — Chad Hugo Copy Share Image
We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back… — RZA Copy Share Image
I like Young Thug. A lot of people might think I don't like Thug. I listen to Thug more than I listen… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I used to say, if Jim were alive today he'd never be clean and sober but I'm changing that answer because Eminem… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I love Ashanti, so that was my thing. I liked that whole era. I don't know what to call that era but… — Kodie Shane Copy Share Image
Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never… — Mike Dean Copy Share Image
So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash… — Reginald Hudlin Copy Share Image
The fact that I got to do the 'Hamilton' BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I've watched the BET Cyphers… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth,… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
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