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What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so…

— M.I.A

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that…

— Zadie Smith

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

— Kool Keith

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 just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop.

— Rakim

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that…

— Chuck D

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and…

— Kendrick Lamar

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

— Grandmaster Flash

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 all over the planet.

— Herbie Hancock