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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.


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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop. And 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to...
ADAM MCKAY As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like...
BUBBA SPARXXX It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But...
FAT JOE That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a...
JAY-Z Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA [Marley recognizes the similarities between hip-hop and the reggae music his father helped put on th...
DAMIAN MARLEY Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.
SNOOP DOGG Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke...
WILL.I.AM Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
KURTIS BLOW The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
MATISYAHU Hip-hop is a style. Some of my owners are hip-hop, but they dress in a different fashion. Hip-hop do...
DAVID STERN Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX 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 Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
RUSSELL SIMMONS 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 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 thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN 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 Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
OBIE TRICE When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clar...
SWIZZ BEATZ This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho...
KENDRICK LAMAR Hip-hop is a vehicle.
TALIB KWELI When they started in with the hip-hop music, people poured out onto the street and started raising C...
WILLIAM BENSON One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou...
CHUCK D It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.
MINYA OH Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER The Hip Hop Professor.
MICHAEL JORDAN How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle...
SEAN COMBS What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. No...
JACK ANTONOFF Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi...
ERYKAH BADU I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh...
ASAP ROCKY This is a war against hip-hop,
JA RULE My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT 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 about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON 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 isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call...
LAURYN HILL 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 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 very commercial and is very open to commercial messages.
LUCIAN JAMES That's the difference between hip-hop and other genres,
SEAN ROSS It delivers an absolute body blow to their Bronx operation.
MARK MERSHON My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.
LIL' KIM Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
AJAY NAIDU I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi...
DARREN ARONOFSKY Their live shows are live rock concerts for hip-hop fans.
DAN HOOTEN I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA 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 am not a hip-hop fan, but I loved those two acts, ... They connected with the crowd and had a grea...
STEVE HILL I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot ...
TALIB KWELI I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.
DANNY MASTERSON I broke the stereotype. Then I picked up the wand and conducted, using my hip-hop vibe. Right there ...
WYCLEF JEAN A lot of hip-hop fans resented them for being the token hip-hop group that was representing hip-hop ...
ERIK PARKER 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 remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
DR. DRE 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 More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result ...
VANILLA ICE We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
ISAAC HANSON You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white ...
CURTIS JACKSON Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of beb...
QUINCY JONES The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a goo...
TALIB KWELI Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
TALIB KWELI Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
COMMON For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, t...
ASAP ROCKY Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee...
LIL MAMA If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily ser...
FRED DURST That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h...
ALAN VEGA I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicia...
NAS I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
B.O.B They bring what's in the neighborhood to hip-hop.
JOSEPH SMITH I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
AXL ROSE Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
ICE T Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's...
CAMERON CROWE I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
ELLE FANNING The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
WALSHY FIRE Hip hop was always about keeping it real,
THOMAS DEFRANTZ In the hip-hop world, there's nothing worse than being called a snitch. It can be detrimental to you...
GREG WATKINS We feel hip-hop is getting a bad rap in this ordeal.
ANDREAS HALE Every blessed day every living soul should spend at least 30 secs to appreciate the 26 alphabets,for...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I'm taking video evidence of a number of incidents over the last two years which happened at the Oly...
ALAN THOMPSON Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that...
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