Hip hop Quote by MC Hammer

We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's like they…

— MC Hammer

That is the problem that we have with the so-called hip hop culture today... I think our foundation is a bunch of people who…

— MC Hammer

The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that…

— Fat Joe

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

— Doechii

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

— Doug E. Fresh

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

You gotta understand a lot of hip-hop kids are going to have the hip-hop mentality. And it's sad because they're not educated enough to…

— Taboo

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

— Michael Franti

Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it…

— Adrian Younge

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

— Troy Carter

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

— Ice T

People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's…

— Nas