Captain Quote by Fat Joe

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

— Katy Perry

I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.

— Ichiro Suzuki

It's always been a struggle for Latin artists within hip-hop. Even though we started it with everybody else, we never really got the props…

— B-Real

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper…

— Nicki Minaj

I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I…

— Goldie

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

— Moshe Kasher

Rappers have always thought they were better than me. And the media has always thought that I was not relevant to hip-hop, so therefore,…

— Too Short

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

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

I was in high school and college as hip-hop was really sort of coming into its own as a, you know, creative force, as…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

— Nipsey Hussle

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

— KRS-One