Dr dre Quote by Kamasi Washington

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples…

— Robert Glasper

Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's always been…

— Kamasi Washington

As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical…

— Amanda Seales

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

— Talib Kweli

Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and…

— DJ Premier

The truth is hip hop has always complemented jazz and vice versa, but there's always been this communication barrier that exists based on music…

— Thundercat

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

For me jazz is kind of an extension of hip-hop. Kind of the sad thing is that a lot of jazz people just listen…

— Jose James

You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would think Jazz…

— Thomas Hampson

I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is…

— Lupe Fiasco

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers.…

— Gary Burton

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

— Amy Winehouse