Culture Quote by Nikki Giovanni

Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.

— KRS-One

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music…

— will.i.am

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

— Yo Gotti

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try…

— Ice T

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

— Iceberg Slim

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

— KRS-One

Why don't we have a national culture? Because we have a all cultures. America has its fingertips into everything, and so does hip-hop, that's…

— Everlast

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

— Troy Carter

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then!…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

— Aeriel Miranda

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong.…

— Iggy Azalea