Hip hop Quote by Boots Riley

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

— Saul Williams

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

— Anonymous

What I miss is a time when hip-hop music had integrity; there was some kind of message. Not in all the music, because it's…

— Xzibit

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going…

— Flavor Flav

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it…

— Tupac Shakur

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is…

— Barack Obama

I think that when it comes to emceeing that there's so many different approaches. You have your party rappers, which pretty much is where…

— Big Daddy Kane

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block…

— Mary J. Blige

“There is genuine Hip Hop; a message that connects, rocks a crowd, and motivates a people and then there is what is left... instead…

— Johnnie Dent Jr

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

I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new…

— Ice Cube

Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all…

— Bakari Kitwana