Common Quote by Jay-Z

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

— Cordae

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the…

— Michael Rapaport

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.

— KRS-One

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

— John Clellon Holmes

Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.

— Rakim

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

— Geraldo Rivera

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going…

— Jay-Z

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

— Steve Stoute

Well, let me say this. It's ignorance. We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people…

— MC Hammer

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

The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.

— KRS-One

“Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.” ”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation