Ethnicity Quote by B-Real

Hip-hop was started on groups.

— Quavo

If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't…

— Fat Joe

People used to think, because of our name, that we were a hip-hop group.

— Kyle Gass

Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

— Fat Joe

Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and from their…

— Jamaal Bowman

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try…

— Ice T

After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of…

— Bakari Kitwana

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

We were basically making Spanish songs for the people that loved Hip Hop already but that knew Spanish because at that time, the people…

— B-Real

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

— Doechii