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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

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

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

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

— Doug E. Fresh

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

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

— Rakim

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

— Grandmaster Flash

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

— Afrika Bambaataa

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

— Saul Williams

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

— Too Short

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

— K. Flay

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

— Herbie Hancock