Hip hop Quote by SonReal

That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming…

— Daveed Diggs

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have…

— Russell Simmons

“Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change.”

— Laura Goode

Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up…

— Karamo Brown

We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more…

— Andy Mineo

I don't like to be considered a 'hip-hop mogul.' I don't know what that means.

— Damon Dash

“There is genuine Hip Hop; a message that connects, rocks a crowd, and motivates a people and then there is what is left... instead…

— Johnnie Dent Jr

I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that…

— Simon de Pury

I think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth, but you…

— Solange Knowles

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

— Yelawolf

“The Hip-Hop generation is a fraud. A farce. It’s a generation of multi-million dollar stars with little to no positive impact on the “hood”…

— Ibn Bashir Muhammad a

“Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.” ”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation