First time Quote by Fat Joe

Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

— Fat Joe

Usually because of our ethnicity we would be labeled a 'Latino Hip Hop' group. But we were able to get past that and say…

— B-Real

The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.

— KRS-One

We were basically making Spanish songs for the people that loved Hip Hop already but that knew Spanish because at that time, the people…

— B-Real

Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and from their…

— Jamaal Bowman

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

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

— Ice T

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

— Erykah Badu

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

— Axel Alonso

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

— Cordae

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as…

— Archie Shepp

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music…

— will.i.am