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I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance... ASAP ROCKY
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh... ASAP ROCKY Hip-hop is a style. Some of my owners are hip-hop, but they dress in a different fashion. Hip-hop do...
DAVID STERN
Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really c... BEN HOROWITZ
They're targeting guys who dress like me, guys who dress hip-hop, ALLEN IVERSON
I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my... ASTRO You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap sta...
BRANDON FLOWERS
Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artis... RUBY ROSE I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in ...
SKYLAR GREY
There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on t... J. COLE Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I...
RACHEL BLOOM For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain thi...
IMRAN AMED We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
They're targeting guys who dress like me -- guys who dress hip-hop. Put a murderer in a suit, and he... ALLEN IVERSON I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, ...
RAVEN GOODWIN
Who can really say who invents something first in fashion? AZZEDINE ALAIA
I have not been in these tents or seen a fashion show live since 1989, when I stopped modeling, ... ... IMAN
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi... DARREN ARONOFSKY
I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who h... GIORGIO ARMANI People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't real...
BLAIR REDFORD We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at peopl...
YOON AHN I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitiv...
ANGEL HAZE
Kanye West is my favorite artist. DRAKE
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho... KENDRICK LAMAR Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX We believe higher-income customers may be starting to take notice of new fashion forward merchandise...
ADRIANNE SHAPIRA Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside ma...
IMRAN AMED
I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very c... BEHATI PRINSLOO Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's...
CAMERON CROWE
I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language bette... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and t...
TAHAR RAHIM This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I'm not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I'm a rock star.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... TALIB KWELI
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke... WILL.I.AM
I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How import... ALBER ELBAZ
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call... LAURYN HILL For perhaps the first time since the beginning of the hip-hop culture, we've been able to provide an...
DON MONTUORI
I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to ma... OLIVIA WILDE 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 isn't as complex as a woman is. TALIB KWELI
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou... CHUCK D We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the ...
NATE RUESS
There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is alw... IMAN
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't eve... JAY-Z I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style ...
LIL' KIM I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who don't follow any fashi...
RILA FUKUSHIMA Look at Daft Punk and Kanye West. The song 'Stronger' was inspired by a Daft tune. Once the ...
LITTLE LOUIE VEGA I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are importan...
KATE BORNSTEIN
It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like d... AL FRANKEN
There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashio... KELLY CUTRONE 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
I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than peopl... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Be... BO BURNHAM
It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the o... CHUCK YEAGER
I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop. BEBE REXHA I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have...
ROBERTO CAVALLI
You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very dif... LINDSEY WIXSON
People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion. ALEX KAPRANOS
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. B. B. KING Genes load the gun, and environment pulls the trigger. These people who are genetically disposed to ...
CYNTHIA M. BULIK
I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more... TAVI GEVINSON I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a so...
TAJ MAHAL The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competitio...
KATHARINE GRAHAM I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by num...
M.I.A. I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Having an emotional connection with what we wear is at once transformative and talismanic. Why else ...
ANNMARIE O'CONNOR
Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those peopl... EMINEM To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant ...
ADAM MANSBACH
She's really nice, a teen queen, a fashion enthusiast. She wears everything she likes. MARC JACOBS
Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't... CARINE ROITFELD You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
ISAAC HANSON
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. QUENTIN CRISP
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started h... MOBY I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY
My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her,... LAURA DERN
I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I... MOSES MALONE
There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it. TRAVIS SCOTT This really appeals to a fashion-forward consumer. Our strategy is to become more relevant to custom...
JOHN FLEMING
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchest... NOEL GALLAGHER Preppy is being approached differently. In the mid-'90s it was urban, hip hop and baggy, now it's fi...
ROBERT BURKE
Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her,... BEBE REXHA That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h...
ALAN VEGA I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced mayb...
ERIK HASSLE I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be p...
RICKY WILLIAMS We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't ...
L.A. REID
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn'... DAVID BAILEY
I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. STEVEN COJOCARU
I want to create a lifestyle niche for that cool girl who's really into fashion but not too obse... ERIN WASSON
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 really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.
DANNY MASTERSON I have mixed emotions about fishing for spawning bass and I respect other's opinions who feel they s...
MAC WEAKLEY I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trend...
RAINA TELGEMEIER
I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist w... RYAN MCGINLEY
I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there h... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'cla... RUSSELL SMITH
I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I ... DANIEL CRAIG
I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really w... RACHEL ROY Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
