Feelings Quote by Erykah Badu

Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you…

— Steve Stoute

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

— Axel Alonso

Hip-hop didn't invent anything… hip-hop re-invented everything.

— Grandmaster Caz

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

— Troy Carter

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

— K. Flay

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 music was our life.

— Prodigy

We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.

— Pepa

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is…

— Barack Obama

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

— Grandmaster Flash

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem,…

— Russell Simmons

The thing about hip-hop is, like, that the instruments were taken out of schools. But - you might have taken the instruments out of…

— Kamasi Washington