Everyone Quote by Big Narstie

I hear all the big department stores like Macy's and Bloomingdale's in the U.S. playing hard hip-hop records to the shoppers, like Rick Ross…

— Skepta

There is some gangsta music I like, like Biggie Smalls - he reminds me of Slick Rick -doing the same thing, but he did…

— apl.de.ap

We don't need Kanye to spit on grime instrumentals to show grime is great.

— Kano

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's…

— Ann Powers

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

— Houston Alexander

I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is…

— Nas

What really got me into hip hop was like, Biggie, Nas, Big Daddy Kane.

— Dylan Alcott

I can clearly hear a lot of grime influence on Timbaland's stuff, on some of Drake's flows.

— Kano

While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the clubs, I…

— Rza

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

— Cee Lo Green

Rappers can't get with the style extra wicked. Rap flow is bangin' like butter on a biscuit. A tisket, a tasket I'm not tryin'…

— Jackie Mittoo

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid…

— Grandmaster Flash