Community Quote by Ad-Rock

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

— Prefuse 73

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 sociology as…

— Quincy Jones

In this time, we incorporate money and media, and it's split up like apartheid, where when you say "hip-hop," you think just rap records.…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.

— Killer Mike

When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for…

— KRS-One

Though my music audience is cross-generational, like my television audience, my core demographic is people like myself. People who have grown up on hip-hop,…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could…

— Afrika Bambaataa

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

— Kanye West

I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous…

— Ice Cube

If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey to Australia,…

— Chuck D

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto,…

— Bono

Rap is not Hip-hop.Rap is part of Hip-hop culture

— Zeno Nkanyane