Culture Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

— Nelly

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music…

— Win Butler

Hip-hop in general is an amalgamation of different things.

— Everlast

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

— Aeriel Miranda

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what…

— Yelawolf

Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is…

— KRS-One

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

Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea…

— Rapsody

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to…

— Prodigy

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

— Mat Kearney