About Quote by KRS-One

There was no hip-hop before Afrika Bambaataa.

— KRS-One

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

— Stanley Crouch

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

— Bono

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

— Kurt Cobain

“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the…

— bell hooks

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

— Cordae

We're not into the rock/rap movement.

— Shavo Odadjian

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

— Steve Winwood

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years…

— St. Lucia