Chips Quote by Todd Boyd

Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.

— Rakim

“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

The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That's all it's about.

— Kodie Shane

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.

— KRS-One

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and…

— Ice T

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

— Tee Grizzley

We need to support the people who are making real hip-hop.

— Redman

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

— Doug E. Fresh

After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of…

— Bakari Kitwana

“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

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

— Kurtis Blow

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face…

— Bakari Kitwana