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VANILLA ICE Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus...
CAT POWER I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT![]()
Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't k...
EMINEM![]()
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh...
ASAP ROCKY Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Cl...
DJ PAUL![]()
My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her,...
LAURA DERN![]()
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou...
CHUCK D I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
ZOEY DEUTCH![]()
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi...
DARREN ARONOFSKY![]()
I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think ...
TALIB KWELI![]()
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING![]()
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a...
JAY-Z![]()
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho...
KENDRICK LAMAR I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my fr...
NATALIA KILLS![]()
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
ROY AYERS I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitiv...
ANGEL HAZE Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES![]()
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't eve...
JAY-Z![]()
I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my...
ASTRO Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX![]()
I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
KANYE WEST![]()
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L...
ZOE KRAVITZ![]()
I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white...
CHAD HUGO We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have...
MADDIE ZIEGLER![]()
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my co...
GUGU MBATHA-RAW![]()
I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.
DUSTIN DIAMOND How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'sou...
PATRICK STUMP![]()
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration...
BEN HOROWITZ 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 don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nic...
DAVID SYLVIAN![]()
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call...
LAURYN HILL The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr...
MAHESH BABU That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h...
ALAN VEGA I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
ADAM PEATY![]()
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credi...
JAY-Z![]()
In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I m...
POST MALONE I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell...
BRYSON TILLER Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to ...
ANDRE BENJAMIN My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
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I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with &#...
LAURYN HILL I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to ...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicia...
NAS![]()
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
TALIB KWELI![]()
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my...
EMINEM I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
VINCE NEIL![]()
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ...
JOHN LEGEND I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop....
KREAYSHAWN![]()
Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don'...
MUHAMMAD ALI![]()
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle...
SEAN COMBS Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long,...
ACTION BRONSON![]()
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don&#...
DAVID SANBORN I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 1...
WIN BUTLER I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ...
NAYVADIUS CASH My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit&...
HERBIE HANCOCK A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I've never had surgery. I don't drink. I don't go out. My shoulders, back, legs, hip, th...
ERIC WEDDLE It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, ...
CLARENCE CLEMONS![]()
I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.
TOM DELONGE![]()
Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won...
CARLI LLOYD I don't really listen to my old music.
JOHN GRANT When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
UWE BOLL![]()
There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with ever...
ASAP FERG![]()
For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, t...
ASAP ROCKY![]()
I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.
TYLER, THE CREATOR Even in Ghana everyone wants to be Western. The young people don't want to hold on to the traditiona...
M. POWELL![]()
One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-h...
TAYLOR SWIFT![]()
I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big.
CHARLIE SHEEN![]()
I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have...
NICKI MINAJ I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
DAMIAN MARLEY![]()
I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rath...
PARIS HILTON![]()
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchest...
NOEL GALLAGHER I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my r...
JENNA DEWAN![]()
Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't...
DRAKE![]()
I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have...
MO IBRAHIM When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was ...
DOUG E. FRESH I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music...
TY DOLLA SIGN I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
B.O.B![]()
I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
BEBE REXHA![]()
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and...
AMY WINEHOUSE![]()
The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ...
ELVIS MITCHELL I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
BEBE REXHA![]()
I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER The Roots are true hip-hop musicians and have a unique style that many hip-hop artists don't have. I...
DAN HOOTEN![]()
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke...
WILL.I.AM I don't have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.
RICK JAMES As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.
BRYANT GUMBEL![]()
My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
JENNIFER ANISTON![]()
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs....
WYNTON MARSALIS
DUSTIN LYNCH I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, ...
RAVEN GOODWIN
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result ... VANILLA ICE Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus...
CAT POWER I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT
Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't k... EMINEM
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh... ASAP ROCKY Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Cl...
DJ PAUL
My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her,... LAURA DERN
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou... CHUCK D I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
ZOEY DEUTCH
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi... DARREN ARONOFSKY
I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think ... TALIB KWELI
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. B. B. KING
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a... JAY-Z
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho... KENDRICK LAMAR I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my fr...
NATALIA KILLS
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. ROY AYERS I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitiv...
ANGEL HAZE Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't eve... JAY-Z
I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my... ASTRO Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX
I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. KANYE WEST
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L... ZOE KRAVITZ
I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white... CHAD HUGO We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have...
MADDIE ZIEGLER
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my co... GUGU MBATHA-RAW
I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing. DUSTIN DIAMOND How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'sou...
PATRICK STUMP
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration... BEN HOROWITZ 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 don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nic...
DAVID SYLVIAN
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call... LAURYN HILL The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr...
MAHESH BABU That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h...
ALAN VEGA I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
ADAM PEATY
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credi... JAY-Z
In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I m... POST MALONE I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
KATE BUSH
Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell... BRYSON TILLER Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to ...
ANDRE BENJAMIN My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with &#... LAURYN HILL I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to ...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicia...
NAS
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is. TALIB KWELI
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my... EMINEM I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
VINCE NEIL
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ... JOHN LEGEND I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop....
KREAYSHAWN
Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don'... MUHAMMAD ALI
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle... SEAN COMBS Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long,... ACTION BRONSON
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don&#... DAVID SANBORN I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 1...
WIN BUTLER I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ...
NAYVADIUS CASH My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit&...
HERBIE HANCOCK A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I've never had surgery. I don't drink. I don't go out. My shoulders, back, legs, hip, th...
ERIC WEDDLE It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, ...
CLARENCE CLEMONS
I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore. TOM DELONGE
Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won... CARLI LLOYD I don't really listen to my old music.
JOHN GRANT When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
UWE BOLL
There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with ever... ASAP FERG
For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, t... ASAP ROCKY
I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler. TYLER, THE CREATOR Even in Ghana everyone wants to be Western. The young people don't want to hold on to the traditiona...
M. POWELL
One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-h... TAYLOR SWIFT
I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big. CHARLIE SHEEN
I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have... NICKI MINAJ I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
DAMIAN MARLEY
I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rath... PARIS HILTON
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchest... NOEL GALLAGHER I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my r...
JENNA DEWAN
Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't... DRAKE
I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have... MO IBRAHIM When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was ...
DOUG E. FRESH I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music...
TY DOLLA SIGN I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
B.O.B
I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop. BEBE REXHA
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and... AMY WINEHOUSE
The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ... ELVIS MITCHELL I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists. BEBE REXHA
I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ... MICHAEL STRAHAN Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER The Roots are true hip-hop musicians and have a unique style that many hip-hop artists don't have. I...
DAN HOOTEN
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke... WILL.I.AM I don't have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.
RICK JAMES As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.
BRYANT GUMBEL
My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. JENNIFER ANISTON
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs.... WYNTON MARSALIS
