Hip hop Quote by Erykah Badu

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

— Prefuse 73

You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in…

— Talib Kweli

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying…

— Alexander Spit

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

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

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 in general is an amalgamation of different things.

— Everlast

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

I'm a Hip Hop artist, but I understand why some people are confused about that because a lot of people have a very narrow…

— Everlast

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

I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new…

— Ice Cube

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

— Doug E. Fresh