Audience Quote by Nas

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

— Heavy D

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

— Ennio Morricone

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

— Doc Brown

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to…

— Raekwon

You have your purists and you have people who want to go outside of what they think hip hop is. You've got to have…

— B-Real

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

— Baratunde Thurston

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could…

— Nas

The Temple of Hip-Hop makes sure that we don't just approach hip-hop just through music or through rap. We approach the totality of hip-hop.

— KRS-One

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

— Yo Gotti

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

— Ed Benguiat

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

— Statik Selektah

I'm passionate about music in general, not just hip-hop. But when it comes to hip-hop, I don't wanna see it die culturally.

— DJ Premier