Breathing Quote by KRS-One

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

— Yo Gotti

Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is…

— Macklemore

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

Hip-hop is substance. It's social. It's science - that's what it started off as. We have fun, and we still having fun; ain't nothing…

— Lecrae

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to…

— Prodigy

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's…

— Chris Paul

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

— Rakim

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

— Aeriel Miranda