Genre Quote by B.J. The Chicago Kid

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

— Erik Parker

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

— Estelle

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other…

— Simon de Pury

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

— Rakim

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

— Aeriel Miranda

I grew up listening to everything outside hip-hop. Hip-hop came later in my life.

— Akon

I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

— Adrian Younge

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it…

— Moshe Kasher

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

— Prefuse 73

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

— Vince Staples

We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays.

— Eyedea

I grew up in a household listening to hip-hop music.

— Candace Owens