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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

— Dizzee Rascal

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

— KRS-One

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 always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place…

— Talib Kweli

Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.

— Taboo

I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth that's just…

— Chuck D

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

— Gina Rodriguez

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

— Ice Cube

I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.

— Westside Gunn

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

— Herbie Hancock

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could…

— Nas