Community Quote by Lil Nas X

I feel like my place is to connect hip-hop... with the youth, the older, the middle. Just everybody that's listening to me. My place…

— Lil B

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

— Rose Byrne

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

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

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

— Yung Lean

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

— Ice T

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of…

— Erykah Badu

I hope everybody out here is supporting hip-hop and trying to make it continue on.

— Big Daddy Kane

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

— Prefuse 73

My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause…

— Black Thought

I just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop.

— Rakim

Because I am white, I feel like certain opportunities were thrown to me through all of the people from the white community who prey…

— Scott Storch