Born Quote by Troy Carter

Hip-hop is youthful. The youth determines which direction it's gonna go. I think your thoughts and your visions starts to change, and you start…

— Lloyd Banks

It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you…

— Common

“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 certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to…

— John Cena

Everything that one sets their mind to do is in today and out tomorrow so we have to get to the point in the…

— MC Hammer

There's just something about being a young, working class, working poor, person of color in New York City in the 80's that needs to…

— Sofia Quintero

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

— Cee Lo Green

I was born in Hip Hop. That's all I ever needed.

— KRS-One

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

— Doug E. Fresh

Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering…

— Bakari Kitwana

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

— Grandmaster Flash