Hip hop Quote by Johnnie Dent Jr

“Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change.”

— Laura Goode

“The Hip-Hop generation is a fraud. A farce. It’s a generation of multi-million dollar stars with little to no positive impact on the “hood”…

— Ibn Bashir Muhammad a

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is…

— Barack Obama

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and…

— Ice T

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 a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

— Mos Def

Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely…

— One9

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem,…

— Russell Simmons

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

— K. Flay

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

A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music,…

— Michael Eric Dyson