Attention Quote by Chuck D

Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities,…

— LeCrae

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what…

— Yelawolf

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands…

— Flavor Flav

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to…

— Prodigy

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try…

— Ice T

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living…

— Dan Auerbach

Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music.

— Kamasi Washington

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

— Nelly