Barriers Quote by Ice Cube

Hip-hop was started on groups.

— Quavo

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is…

— Macklemore

Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it…

— Adrian Younge

Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you…

— Steve Stoute

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as…

— Quincy Jones

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

— Axel Alonso

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

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

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

— Prefuse 73

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

— Pitbull

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in…

— Mos Def

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill