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Hip Hop Quotes by Michael Eric Dyson
- He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the…
- Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
- Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
- Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy'…
- Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal…
- Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent…
- If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it…
- ..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as…
- The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history,…
- Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the…
More Hip Hop Quotes
- Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer… — Erykah Badu
- November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world,… — Afrika Bambaataa
- People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are… — Afrika Bambaataa
- The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. — Afrika Bambaataa
- We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand… — Afrika Bambaataa
- Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in… — Andre Benjamin
- By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but… — Mary J. Blige
- The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. — Kurtis Blow
- As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of… — Bono
- I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls. — Jo Brand
- I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein
- I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and… — Luke Bryan