Audience Quote by Method Man

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

— Method Man

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

— Heavy D

I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar…

— Fab Five Freddy

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

— Derek Luke

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

— Nas

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

— Michael Franti

Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

— Thomas Bangalter

I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that…

— Immortal Technique

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

— Rakim

I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not…

— Nas

Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ...…

— Tony DiSanto

For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the…

— El-P