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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 That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h...
ALAN VEGA
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho... KENDRICK LAMAR Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. MAYER HAWTHORNE
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a... JAY-Z I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ...
NAYVADIUS CASH
That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know. TALIB KWELI
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 is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ...
NAS The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call... LAURYN HILL America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it...
TAYLOR HAWKINS Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is...
DAN AUERBACH The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi... DARREN ARONOFSKY
For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, t... ASAP ROCKY
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ... MOS DEF
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. TALIB KWELI Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds a...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that... BUSTA RHYMES
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no... SAUL WILLIAMS I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop....
KREAYSHAWN
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it... CHRIS LOWE I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Be... BO BURNHAM
Country's hip; it's cool music. RICKY SKAGGS
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh... ASAP ROCKY If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see...
DEBORAH COX
Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't k... EMINEM Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-maki...
ANN POWERS Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul....
MAXWELL
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a par... JOHN LEGEND A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling....
DARON MALAKIAN As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE I fell in love with hip-hop in the 90's to 80's music...
DONNAYSIA IFIELD
It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go f... CLIVE DAVIS Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music aren...
MARVIN SAPP
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 There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to...
DON CORNELIUS
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a... BARACK OBAMA I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
ZOEY DEUTCH Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to ...
ANDRE BENJAMIN
It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like d... AL FRANKEN Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi...
PUSHA T
I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That... RICK RUBIN
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don&#... DAVID SANBORN
Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's go... TWO CHAINZ
Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that'... BRENDON URIE Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
AL YANKOVIC
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credi... JAY-Z
In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's alwa... J. COLE
There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with ever... ASAP FERG
Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial... JOHN LEGEND
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my... EMINEM My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA When the pastor's up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and sp...
ANDERSON PAAK Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other peopl...
BENNY BLANCO It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration... BEN HOROWITZ
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I ... JAY-Z When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you kno...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my... ASTRO I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a l...
JOHN F. KERRY There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,...
NAYVADIUS CASH People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's s...
ERIC LEWIS
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very im... LOU REED
For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and ... THE WEEKND Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's...
CAMERON CROWE
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have s... SKRILLEX I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was ver...
MICHAEL RAPAPORT
What's the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into t... LUPE FIASCO When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity i...
MISSY ELLIOTT
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I real... JOHN CENA Sneakers are a new era. Anyone can feel new with a new pair of shoes. They make you feel contemporar...
GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - ...
WANG LEEHOM I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by num...
M.I.A. If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it...
EDWIN STARR Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get...
KAT DAHLIA If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced...
MICHAEL WINSLOW Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come clo...
CURTIS JACKSON
To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every... DMX
My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single fa... KID CUDI 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
Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying thes... KENDRICK LAMAR
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in h... STEVE ALBINI
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 never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect ...
FAT JOE
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's ... JAY-Z
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. B. B. KING Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that...
K'NAAN
