Beats Quote by Nas

I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about…

— Conor Oberst

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands…

— Flavor Flav

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

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 think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and…

— Ice T

Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities,…

— LeCrae

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what…

— Yelawolf

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough,…

— Jay-Z

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

— Talib Kweli

Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because we both…

— Amadou Bagayoko