Different Quote by Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop in general is an amalgamation of different things.

— Everlast

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

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's…

— Ann Powers

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

— Mat Kearney

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

— Girl Talk

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

— K. Flay

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

— Aeriel Miranda

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it…

— Tupac Shakur

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

— Anonymous

Hip-hop is not one thing. There are 50 different approaches to making it and showing it.

— Too Short

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

— Doug E. Fresh

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

— Herbie Hancock