Am Quote by Kid Cudi

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does…

— ASAP Rocky

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and…

— Kendrick Lamar

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm…

— Brian Austin Green

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not…

— DJ Premier

You have your purists and you have people who want to go outside of what they think hip hop is. You've got to have…

— B-Real

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

— Doug E. Fresh

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying…

— Alexander Spit

Hip-hop is always what's the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get that stamp…

— Scott Storch

I'm still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don't even know if I'm making hip hop anymore.

— Yung Lean

We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and…

— Prodigy

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will…

— apl.de.ap

I totally embrace the different transformations we've seen in hip-hop throughout the years.

— Frank Dukes