Ambulance Quote by Doug Benson

I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to records by…

— Elton John

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type…

— Patrick Carney

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I…

— Baratunde Thurston

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

— Arthur Sullivan

We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the…

— RZA

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

— Damian Marley

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

— Jay-Z

I try to take elements from all kinds of music. Even if I'm listening to anything off the wall, like Britney Spears, there might…

— Metro Boomin

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play…

— Carlos Santana

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's…

— Ann Powers

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in…

— Mos Def