Hip hop Quote by G-Dragon

I just listened to regular commercial music from Korea. I would just follow the choreographed dance routines. I didn't have any ambitions of pursuing…

— G-Dragon

I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang's 'C.R.E.A.M.' Before that, I didn't know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was…

— G-Dragon

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

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top…

— AJ Tracey

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the…

— Isaac Hayes

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

When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it.

— KRS-One

In 1979, I was in ninth grade. Before I started tenth grade, I was already rapping myself. I didn't wait around to see what…

— Too Short

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

— Aesop Rock

Hip-hop was started on groups.

— Quavo

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

— Estelle

My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

— Juice Wrld