Advancing Quote by Kool Keith

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

— Big Sean

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

— Kool Keith

I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the…

— Rick Rubin

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 got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.

— Smokepurpp

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did…

— Natalia Kills

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

— Kid Rock

I just don't think many people would have crossed the street to hear me doing a hip hop-influenced album!

— Michael McDonald

I was making all my own beats, and I really liked sampling stuff, like old '50s and '60s pop and soul and doo-wop records.…

— G-Eazy

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

— Anonymous

I love hip-hop, so what I do is done with respect, but there was a very closed-minded attitude toward live instruments and music that…

— Everlast

If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's…

— Mike Shinoda