Quincy Jones
Related DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us t... NAS A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-h... DONALD BYRD Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee... LIL MAMA Hip-hop is a style. Some of my owners are hip-hop, but they dress in a different fashion. Hip-hop do... DAVID STERN DAVID SANBORN The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ... VANESSA BROWN I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach. DAMIAN MARLEY BEN HOROWITZ Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music aren... MARVIN SAPP [But when the infectious beat of reggaetón, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro... DADDY YANKEE [But when the infectious beat of reggaetón, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro... DADDY YANKEE From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy cha... RANDY SAVAGE What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. No... JACK ANTONOFF As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,... FAT JOE TALIB KWELI My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA TALIB KWELI I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like... BUBBA SPARXXX Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now. KURTIS BLOW We have a real thing in hip-hop about out with the old, in with the new. I'm shocked about how littl... DEBRA HARRIS I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in ... SKYLAR GREY Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'... YELAWOLF The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip ... FAT JOE SKRILLEX DARREN ARONOFSKY Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ... JOSE JAMES In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief LAURA GOODE BO BURNHAM LAURYN HILL TAYLOR SWIFT I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at w... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur... JAMIE FOXX Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON ROY AYERS T. J. MILLER CHUCK D BRITNEY SPEARS Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists,... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music... TY DOLLA SIGN ELVIS MITCHELL WYNTON MARSALIS If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record... CAT POWER Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical... ADAM KLUGER STEVE HARVEY ASAP ROCKY 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 We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop. CORI MURRAY TALIB KWELI When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many m... FAT JOE KANYE WEST Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu... ALOE BLACC WILL.I.AM I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just... MIKE POSNER LIL REL HOWERY Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. BAZ LUHRMANN I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop. B.O.B JAY-Z BUSTA RHYMES LAURA DERN [Marley recognizes the similarities between hip-hop and the reggae music his father helped put on th... DAMIAN MARLEY SEAN COMBS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's... CAMERON CROWE ANDREA HAIRSTON J.D. SALINGER GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a... HERBIE HANCOCK Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Cl... DJ PAUL We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don... JAMES BUCKLEY Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ... NAS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ROY AYERS CHRIS LOWE You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them. ISAAC HANSON America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it... TAYLOR HAWKINS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG SAUL WILLIAMS I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity i... MISSY ELLIOTT SAUL WILLIAMS They bring what's in the neighborhood to hip-hop. JOSEPH SMITH KENDRICK LAMAR A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling.... DARON MALAKIAN I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so... MISSY ELLIOTT We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off int... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA DR. DRE VANILLA ICE There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from... JEFF CHANG 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994.... NAS CHRIS CORNELL ICE T I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ... NAYVADIUS CASH
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I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don&#... 
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration... 
So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being... 
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... 
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have s... 
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi... 
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Be... 
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call... 
One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-h... 
There is no greater glory than to die for love. 
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... 
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. 
I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming D... 
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou... 
Lately I've been interested in a lot of hip hop music. 
The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ... 
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs.... 
I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we ha... 
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh... 
It's not for me to say what's missing in hip-hop, ... It's for me to do what's missing in hip-hop. 
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke... 
I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I starte... 
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a... 
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that... 
My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her,... 
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle... 
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. 
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... 
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... 
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... 
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it... 
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no... 
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho... 
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. 
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result ... 
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important... 
I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want i... 
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet... 
You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F. 
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m... 
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin... 
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ... 
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer... 
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident. 
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. 
I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he... 
I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le... 