Hip hop Quote by MC Hammer

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

— Angel Haze

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

— Baratunde Thurston

I find it fascinating how hip hop as a culture mirrors every mythology from the beginning of mythology. The concept of the single mother…

— KRS-One

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

— Russell Simmons

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole…

— Freddie Gibbs

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

“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

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong.…

— Iggy Azalea

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've…

— Coolio

This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of…

— Kehinde Wiley

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

— Cornel West