Black-men Quote by bell hooks

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong.…

— Iggy Azalea

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

It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that…

— Dave Itzkoff

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

— Lauryn Hill

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

— Lauryn Hill

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America…

— Prince

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

— Doechii

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

— Steve Stoute

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 offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

— Todd Boyd

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

— Justin Simien

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

— Cordae