Beef Quote by Tupac Shakur

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

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk…

— Afrika Bambaataa

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

— Questlove

Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper…

— Jay-Z

Hip-hop is not one thing!

— Lil Yachty

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

— Saul Williams

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so…

— M.I.A

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

You have your purists and you have people who want to go outside of what they think hip hop is. You've got to have…

— B-Real

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying…

— Alexander Spit

To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music, and that,…

— KRS-One