Balance Quote by Talib Kweli

People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's…

— Nas

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

— Vince Staples

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not…

— DJ Premier

I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot…

— Talib Kweli

Hip-hop is as much an attitude and perspective as it is a music form.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it…

— Adrian Younge

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in…

— Mos Def

Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more…

— Eric Thomas

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will…

— apl.de.ap

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

— Laurieann Gibson

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the…

— Miguel

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

— Girl Talk