America Quote by Nas

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

— Nas

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was…

— Tracy Morgan

I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started.

— El-P

I don't know what ya'll heard, but Hip Hop ain't dead.

— Wale

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

— Aesop Rock

I tell you this once, hip hop is not dead. Change gon come just like Barack said.

— Jadakiss

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

— Dizzee Rascal

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

— Nas

I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people - and I…

— El-P

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

— Erykah Badu

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

— Conor Oberst

If hip-hop is dead, then let it rest in peace and let's move on to something else.

— Black Thought