Being Quote by Biz Markie

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will…

— apl.de.ap

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not…

— DJ Premier

There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing. But they…

— Logic

Hip-hop is not one thing. There are 50 different approaches to making it and showing it.

— Too Short

You have your purists and you have people who want to go outside of what they think hip hop is. You've got to have…

— B-Real

There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have…

— Russell Simmons

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have…

— Kanye West

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

— Saul Williams

I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be…

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Prefuse 73