Benefits Quote by Questlove

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

— Statik Selektah

One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as…

— Barry McCaffrey

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and…

— Beck

I want to appeal to people's sense of humanity and interconnectedness. I feel like I have the platform I'm standing on for a reason.…

— Madonna Ciccone

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

— Rick Rubin

I work with Kick G.A.M.E., the grassroots artist movement. Not to tell people we have the best union plan in the world, but to…

— Immortal Technique

I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship…

— Frances McDormand

Legalize it, and I will advertise it.

— Peter Tosh

I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice.

— Ari Melber

There's no major label in the world that would have let me make video game music, then conscious hip hop. They want you to…

— Raheem Jarbo