Diversity Quote by Casey Spooner

We love pop and the U.K. specifically seems to embrace pop and it's so cool.

— Jessica Origliasso

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that…

— Zadie Smith

When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas…

— Jonas Carpignano

I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.

— Offset

It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.

— Rosalia

I feel like the U.K. is a better breeding ground for pop, partially because the radio play is more broad and open to new…

— Charli XCX

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

— Phife Dawg

There is so much good music from our scene in the U.K., and I'm happy I'm part of that movement. For a long time,…

— Skepta

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

— James Mercer

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

— Dizzee Rascal

People love to be U.K. music advocates but they don't wanna give other types of music a chance so it can be as popular…

— AJ Tracey

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on…

— Madonna Ciccone