Claiming Quote by Grandmaster Flash

Hip-hop is not one thing!

— Lil Yachty

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid…

— Grandmaster Flash

Rap is not Hip-hop.Rap is part of Hip-hop culture

— Zeno Nkanyane

Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.

— KRS-One

You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.

— KRS-One

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 is all over the planet.

— Herbie Hancock

I'm a Hip Hop artist, but I understand why some people are confused about that because a lot of people have a very narrow…

— Everlast

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

— Everlast

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

— Too Short

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not…

— DJ Premier

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

— Questlove