Coast Quote by Afrika Bambaataa

East Coast, West Coast, all that needs to cease. Everyone wants hip-hop to be this big empire, but we're not going to get to…

— Da Brat

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

— Rakim

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

— Dizzee Rascal

We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no…

— Taboo

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

— KRS-One

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

— Saul Williams

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

— Yo Gotti

You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in…

— Talib Kweli

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that…

— Chuck D

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could…

— Nas

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living…

— Dan Auerbach

Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place…

— Talib Kweli