Along Quote by Grandmaster Flash

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

— Grandmaster Flash

I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically…

— Monie Love

Hip-hop is not one thing. There are 50 different approaches to making it and showing it.

— Too Short

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it…

— Tupac Shakur

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

— Anonymous

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

— Doug E. Fresh

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

— K. Flay

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop in general is an amalgamation of different things.

— Everlast

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

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

— Axel Alonso