Backbone Quote by Black Thought

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

— Baratunde Thurston

We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more…

— Andy Mineo

I totally embrace the different transformations we've seen in hip-hop throughout the years.

— Frank Dukes

I'm always vocal about people being unique and different in hip-hop.

— Prodigy

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

— Girl Talk

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

— Too Short

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to…

— Questlove

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other.…

— Grandmaster Flash

The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get…

— Lil Uzi Vert

Hip-hop in general is an amalgamation of different things.

— Everlast

I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.

— Phife Dawg

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