We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then… — Beck Copy Share Image
“You can't call me boo." "Why not?" "Because you're not a rapper, and I'm not your shorty.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Hi, my name is best rapper alive and your mouth is the best crapper alive . Cause you talk shit, I get… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Me being a rapper takes up too much of my time. I can't really do the things I need to do, but… — Fivio Foreign Copy Share Image
I would say Tupac influenced me the most to start rapping, but as far as a female icon that I've looked up… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work” — Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Copy Share Image
When we're rapping on these records, we're either rapping about our past lives or things our people are going through right now… — Pimp C Copy Share Image
This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influencers of the hip-hop culture,… — Demetrius Shipp, Jr Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you have a theme so particular to cows - or it could be anything like hair or nails -… — Doja Cat 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
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
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
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
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 think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here. — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not? — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin. — Drake Copy Share Image
In subliminal ways, every song I do, there's something in it that I can attach to hip-hop directly. — Everlast Copy Share Image
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen… — James Caan Copy Share Image
No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I… — Scarface Copy Share Image
For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked. — Erick Sermon Copy Share Image
Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
“In the words of a rap song my neighbor used to play on his boombox when I was a kid: Hold up,… — Mariana Zapata Copy Share Image
Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
You are the Kim to my Marshall,your the Slim to my Shady, the Dre to my Eminem, the Alaina to my Hailie. — Eminem Copy Share Image
Favorite rap album? Damn. Lil Wayne's mixtapes... He got a lot of good mixtapes like 'Da Drought 3.' — Jamal Murray Copy Share Image
By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop. — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I like Kendrick because Kendrick is keeping that spirit alive of trying to educate and teach people, man. — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
I suck nuts because I can't rap and I aint even gonna be popular or remembered in a year — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Drake is a lyrical genius, and he's great with melodies, and Pharrell is an amazing producer and songwriter. — Justine Skye Copy Share Image