Artist Quote by Eric Thomas

I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing.…

— Shahin Najafi

It's all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.

— Playboi Carti

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and…

— Ice T

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it…

— Tupac Shakur

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

— Cornel West

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything…

— Travis Scott

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will…

— apl.de.ap

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether…

— Talib Kweli

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

— Questlove

Even though hip-hop started as a battle format, different artists appeared on each other's records or hung out in the same clubs, supporting each…

— Mike D

Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it…

— Adrian Younge

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists…

— Nas