American Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music.

— Kamasi Washington

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 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

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

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

Hip-hop in general is an amalgamation of different things.

— Everlast

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 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

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

Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up…

— Karamo Brown

Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement..

— KRS-One

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

— Lauryn Hill