Able Quote by Boots Riley

The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have the street…

— Adrian Marcel

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New…

— Michael Rapaport

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

— Willie Stargell

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

— KRS-One

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't…

— Michael Rapaport

In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't…

— Taboo

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.

— The D.O.C

Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get down. Our…

— Lyor Cohen

Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I wasn't really happy in Oakland or anything like that.

— Amari Cooper

I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I…

— Goldie

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

— Troy Carter