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Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.


Kurtis Blow

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OBIE TRICE Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Cl...
DJ PAUL How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the cultu...
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ALAN VEGA What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. No...
JACK ANTONOFF If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For th...
JOHN CENA Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.
SNOOP DOGG Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of beb...
QUINCY JONES We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY 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 think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like...
BUBBA SPARXXX The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
WALSHY FIRE Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop. And 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
MATISYAHU My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
MICHAEL RAPAPORT For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is ...
ADAM MANSBACH Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke...
WILL.I.AM I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.
KURTIS BLOW It's a hip-hop record, but it's a musician-based hip-hop record,
MIKE SHINODA Hip-hop is a vehicle.
TALIB KWELI While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical...
BELL HOOKS My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi...
PUSHA T Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON 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.
KANYE WEST A lot of hip-hop fans resented them for being the token hip-hop group that was representing hip-hop ...
ERIK PARKER Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'...
YELAWOLF November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring toget...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA The Hip Hop Professor.
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AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment ...
CHUCK D I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh...
ASAP ROCKY This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho...
KENDRICK LAMAR Everything is going to focus around the record, which he is diligently working on now. It's no diffe...
BRENT SMITH We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don...
JAMES BUCKLEY One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou...
CHUCK D Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi...
ERYKAH BADU This is a war against hip-hop,
JA RULE Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANN Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI They bring what's in the neighborhood to hip-hop.
JOSEPH SMITH Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON The Academy (of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences) is really to be commended. It's admirable that vote...
AARON ROSENBERG When they started in with the hip-hop music, people poured out onto the street and started raising C...
WILLIAM BENSON Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call...
LAURYN HILL I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle...
SEAN COMBS It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books t...
TA-NEHISI COATES We feel hip-hop is getting a bad rap in this ordeal.
ANDREAS HALE I broke the stereotype. Then I picked up the wand and conducted, using my hip-hop vibe. Right there ...
WYCLEF JEAN I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi...
DARREN ARONOFSKY Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
RUSSELL SIMMONS I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX The public perception is unfair because it ignores issues in society that hip-hop reflects.
ADEN DARITY Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't h...
DADDY YANKEE No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool...
CARLOS WALLACE For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about Afri...
CARLOS WALLACE The business of hip hop is probably the most tangible example of the genre’s dramatic maturation.
CARLOS WALLACE It's a war on hip hop,
JA RULE I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot ...
TALIB KWELI Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom play...
CURTIS JACKSON That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a...
JAY-Z I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily ser...
FRED DURST The Roots are true hip-hop musicians and have a unique style that many hip-hop artists don't have. I...
DAN HOOTEN America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it...
TAYLOR HAWKINS Hip hop has reached well beyond its urban roots to diverse national dimensions and has been an integ...
BRENT GLASS I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my...
ASTRO As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite/ sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet...
NASIR JONES Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone...
JAY-Z Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
CHUCK D He is one of the more venerated artists. He is very well known in the hip-hop steam.
ANDREW HARDING In the hip-hop world, there's nothing worse than being called a snitch. It can be detrimental to you...
GREG WATKINS Lately I've been interested in a lot of hip hop music.
BRITNEY SPEARS Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
TALIB KWELI Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
COMMON Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a goo...
TALIB KWELI Hip-hop is very commercial and is very open to commercial messages.
LUCIAN JAMES I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicia...
NAS 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 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 I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
B.O.B It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.
MINYA OH That's the difference between hip-hop and other genres,
SEAN ROSS Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Detroit is a rising hub of hip-hop culture, and we have two million names in our database, and a lar...
BEN CHAVIS I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L...
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