Related
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho...
KENDRICK LAMAR![]()
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment ...
CHUCK D![]()
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER [Marley recognizes the similarities between hip-hop and the reggae music his father helped put on th...
DAMIAN MARLEY![]()
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle...
SEAN COMBS Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON![]()
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call...
LAURYN HILL When they started in with the hip-hop music, people poured out onto the street and started raising C...
WILLIAM BENSON Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...
ALOE BLACC You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white ...
CURTIS JACKSON This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'...
YELAWOLF I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
ADAM PEATY![]()
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a...
JAY-Z Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Cl...
DJ PAUL![]()
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
TALIB KWELI![]()
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L...
ZOE KRAVITZ![]()
Lately I've been interested in a lot of hip hop music.
BRITNEY SPEARS![]()
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke...
WILL.I.AM My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi...
PUSHA T Hip-hop is a style. Some of my owners are hip-hop, but they dress in a different fashion. Hip-hop do...
DAVID STERN![]()
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi...
DARREN ARONOFSKY The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and m...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
Wow, this is so amazing. I thank God. This is crazy because this is hip-hop music.
LAURYN HILL![]()
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration...
BEN HOROWITZ Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA A lot of hip-hop fans resented them for being the token hip-hop group that was representing hip-hop ...
ERIK PARKER I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ...
NAYVADIUS CASH![]()
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it...
CHRIS LOWE A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result ...
VANILLA ICE![]()
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
ROY AYERS![]()
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a par...
JOHN LEGEND Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
KURTIS BLOW Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee...
LIL MAMA The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds a...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical...
BELL HOOKS I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-h...
DONALD BYRD We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h...
ALAN VEGA I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN![]()
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou...
CHUCK D![]()
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
ROY AYERS I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
DIPLO The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN![]()
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is...
JACKIE COLLINS![]()
Hip-hop is a vehicle.
TALIB KWELI I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX I fell in love with hip-hop in the 90's to 80's music...
DONNAYSIA IFIELD![]()
You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
G-EAZY Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ...
NAS![]()
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown...
FAB FIVE FREDDY![]()
Hip hop is from the underground. It's from the underbelly [of America]. The poetry [music] is an exp...
RUSSELL SIMMONS We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the ...
NATE RUESS![]()
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh...
ASAP ROCKY I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from...
JEFF CHANG I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
PITBULL I think rock music is getting better. The best (selling) music has been hip-hop for quite a while. S...
BRANDON FLOWERS London, London, London town,
You can toughen up or get thrown around.
KANO![]()
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
JAY-Z I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music...
TY DOLLA SIGN![]()
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi...
ERYKAH BADU It's a hip-hop record, but it's a musician-based hip-hop record,
MIKE SHINODA There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to...
DON CORNELIUS Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, ...
RAVEN GOODWIN![]()
This is a war against hip-hop,
JA RULE The thing about Hip Hop today and music in general is that the people who created it meaning Blacks ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ...
JOHN LEGEND![]()
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white ...
JESSE JACKSON![]()
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and...
JESSE JACKSON![]()
The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
MATISYAHU Hip-hop is very commercial and is very open to commercial messages.
LUCIAN JAMES![]()
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
AJAY NAIDU November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring toget...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
ICE T It's about a young man with a talent for music and hip-hop but who has to survive the worst neighbor...
KATHLEEN SCHMIDT Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don...
JAMES BUCKLEY I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
KARRINE STEFFANS America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it...
TAYLOR HAWKINS [Rap and hip hop today] come across ... the same way that jazz was embraced by the [Lost] Generation...
BILL FERRIS![]()
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
I think you have to advance with the times, you know. With hip-hop and rap and house music, they mak...
IKE TURNER![]()
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ...
MOS DEF![]()
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important...
CHRIS CORNELL![]()
Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
COMMON![]()
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started h...
MOBY![]()
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more tha...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN [But rapper nicknames] come from anywhere, ... And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop.
BILL ADLER![]()
The Hip Hop Professor.
MICHAEL JORDAN The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD![]()
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff...
KOBE BRYANT The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho... KENDRICK LAMAR
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment ... CHUCK D
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... TALIB KWELI Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER [Marley recognizes the similarities between hip-hop and the reggae music his father helped put on th...
DAMIAN MARLEY
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle... SEAN COMBS Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call... LAURYN HILL When they started in with the hip-hop music, people poured out onto the street and started raising C...
WILLIAM BENSON Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...
ALOE BLACC You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white ...
CURTIS JACKSON This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'...
YELAWOLF I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
ADAM PEATY
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a... JAY-Z Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Cl...
DJ PAUL
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. TALIB KWELI
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L... ZOE KRAVITZ
Lately I've been interested in a lot of hip hop music. BRITNEY SPEARS
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke... WILL.I.AM My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi...
PUSHA T Hip-hop is a style. Some of my owners are hip-hop, but they dress in a different fashion. Hip-hop do...
DAVID STERN
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi... DARREN ARONOFSKY The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and m...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
Wow, this is so amazing. I thank God. This is crazy because this is hip-hop music. LAURYN HILL
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration... BEN HOROWITZ Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA A lot of hip-hop fans resented them for being the token hip-hop group that was representing hip-hop ...
ERIK PARKER I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ...
NAYVADIUS CASH
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it... CHRIS LOWE A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result ... VANILLA ICE
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. ROY AYERS
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a par... JOHN LEGEND Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
KURTIS BLOW Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee...
LIL MAMA The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds a...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical... BELL HOOKS I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-h...
DONALD BYRD We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h...
ALAN VEGA I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou... CHUCK D
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. ROY AYERS I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
DIPLO The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is... JACKIE COLLINS
Hip-hop is a vehicle. TALIB KWELI I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX I fell in love with hip-hop in the 90's to 80's music...
DONNAYSIA IFIELD
You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy. G-EAZY Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ...
NAS
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no... SAUL WILLIAMS I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown...
FAB FIVE FREDDY
Hip hop is from the underground. It's from the underbelly [of America]. The poetry [music] is an exp... RUSSELL SIMMONS We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the ...
NATE RUESS
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh... ASAP ROCKY I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from...
JEFF CHANG I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
PITBULL I think rock music is getting better. The best (selling) music has been hip-hop for quite a while. S...
BRANDON FLOWERS London, London, London town,
You can toughen up or get thrown around.
KANO
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. JAY-Z I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music...
TY DOLLA SIGN
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi... ERYKAH BADU It's a hip-hop record, but it's a musician-based hip-hop record,
MIKE SHINODA There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to...
DON CORNELIUS Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, ...
RAVEN GOODWIN
This is a war against hip-hop, JA RULE The thing about Hip Hop today and music in general is that the people who created it meaning Blacks ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ... JOHN LEGEND
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white ... JESSE JACKSON
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and... JESSE JACKSON
The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll. MATISYAHU Hip-hop is very commercial and is very open to commercial messages.
LUCIAN JAMES
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. AJAY NAIDU November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring toget...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. ICE T It's about a young man with a talent for music and hip-hop but who has to survive the worst neighbor...
KATHLEEN SCHMIDT Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don...
JAMES BUCKLEY I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
KARRINE STEFFANS America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it...
TAYLOR HAWKINS [Rap and hip hop today] come across ... the same way that jazz was embraced by the [Lost] Generation...
BILL FERRIS
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t... QUINCY JONES We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
I think you have to advance with the times, you know. With hip-hop and rap and house music, they mak... IKE TURNER
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ... MOS DEF
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important... CHRIS CORNELL
Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher. COMMON
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started h... MOBY
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more tha... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN [But rapper nicknames] come from anywhere, ... And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop.
BILL ADLER
The Hip Hop Professor. MICHAEL JORDAN The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff... KOBE BRYANT The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW
