Culture Quote by Chuck D

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

— Erykah Badu

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds.…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

— Conor Oberst

I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say.…

— Nas

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

— Michael Franti

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music…

— will.i.am

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson

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 a voice.

— Too Short

There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and a critique…

— Ari Melber

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

— K. Flay

We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no…

— Taboo