Empowerment Quote by M.I.A

I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They…

— GRiZ

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

— Erykah Badu

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so…

— M.I.A

I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous…

— Ice Cube

What I miss is a time when hip-hop music had integrity; there was some kind of message. Not in all the music, because it's…

— Xzibit

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

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

— Angel Haze

I think that's one thing that hinders hip-hop and I think when everybody tries to be the same... That's why people look at the…

— Fabolous

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have…

— Russell Simmons

One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

— Cordae

I've been accused of not being up on hip-hop or not being a fan of hip-hop, which was never true. If you had a…

— Don Cornelius