Alabama Quote by Yelawolf

You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

— Rickey Medlocke

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

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

— Ice Cube

I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I…

— Kid Cudi

I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.

— Metro Boomin

I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a…

— Dash Mihok

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

— Lupe Fiasco

Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place…

— Talib Kweli

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music…

— will.i.am

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

— Gina Rodriguez

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

— Ludacris

Hip-hop has been so important in my work, because it speaks to the idea of money being tied to cultural capital in an honest…

— Lauren Greenfield