Choice Quote by Ari Melber

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

— Nas

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

— Conor Oberst

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

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

— Saul Williams

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and…

— Ice T

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

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 is the way it is because of America.

— Dizzee Rascal

There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and a critique…

— Ari Melber

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

— Michael Franti