Administration Quote by Isaac Hayes

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 was started on groups.

— Quavo

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

— Estelle

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong.…

— Iggy Azalea

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own…

— Max Roach

I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on the street,…

— Shinichiro Watanabe

The thing about hip-hop is, like, that the instruments were taken out of schools. But - you might have taken the instruments out of…

— Kamasi Washington

To me hip-hop is a culture and I became an MC to be recognized as a dope lyricist. That's what I wanted to be…

— Big Daddy Kane

Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.

— Gza

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

— Lauryn Hill

Hip-hop music was our life.

— Prodigy

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

— Russell Simmons