Art Quote by Macklemore

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

Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you…

— Steve Stoute

Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea…

— Rapsody

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 is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is…

— KRS-One

Even though hip-hop started as a battle format, different artists appeared on each other's records or hung out in the same clubs, supporting each…

— Mike D

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything…

— Travis Scott

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not…

— DJ Premier

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we…

— KRS-One

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 guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as…

— Quincy Jones