Hip hop Quote by Eyedea

Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me,…

— Gza

I grew up listening to everything outside hip-hop. Hip-hop came later in my life.

— Akon

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living…

— Dan Auerbach

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

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

— Aeriel Miranda

We were teens in the Eighties, and that's the kind of music that we all grew up on. When you're in those really formative…

— Tony Kanal

Hip-hop music was our life.

— Prodigy

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

— Teju Cole

When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas…

— Jonas Carpignano

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

— Estelle

I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop fans.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

— Mat Kearney