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“Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'”

Author:Eminem

“Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.”

Stills Artist Culture Pure Hip Hop Crafts Hips Germany Hops Australia Asia Spoiled Imports Homegrown

Author:Talib Kweli

“Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.”

Has Beens Whole Careers Involved Hip Hop Video Ice Hips Hops Mary Cubes Mary J Blige

Author:F. Gary Gray

“Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.”

Important Kids Hip Hop Hips Hops Outlook

Author:Erik Parker

“Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.”

Home Parent Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops

Author:B.J. The Chicago Kid

“Hip Hop has its ups and downs but I'm gonna do my best to not necessarily bring that back but just remind people what they are forgetting about.”

People Forget Hip Hop Hips Hops Ups & Downs

Author:Mic Geronimo

“Hip hop in its purest form has evolved, inspired, educated and created a lucrative independent revenue stream for what was once a poverty-stricken, hopeless class of artists.”

Hip Hop Philosophy

Author:Carlos Wallace

Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.”

Passion Music Rapper Raps Nf

Author:Nathan Feuerstein (NF)

“Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.”

People Stills Speak Language Streets Music Is Essence Folks Hip Hop Hips Hops Zero Folk Music Ground Zero

Author:Talib Kweli

“Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.”

Feelings Artist Fans Hip Hop Rap Meaningful Hips Eras Hops Emerging New Era Mixed Feelings

Author:Eric Thomas

“Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching is what bein an m.c. is all about. I wanted my intelligence to be heard in my lyrics..I wanted the pain to be felt...and the happiness i encountered. Bein an m.c. takes originality, style, imagination, delivery, intelligence and presence.”

Soul Wanted Pain Desire Culture Felt Imagination Heard Style Expression Duty Roots Hip Hop Witty Hips Hops Touching Originality Uniqueness Delivery

Author:Larry Bakersfield

“Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Mind Art Used Artist Next Voice Levels Creativity Technology Too Much Danger Right Now Reflection Art Is Machines Hip Hop Hips Hops Efficient Next Level

Author:Del tha Funkee Homosapien

“Hip hop is kinda funny because the further you get into it the more at risk you are.”

Risk Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Mic Geronimo

“Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.”

People Art Stills Helping Form Strong Hip Hop Hips Hops Tribes Find Me

Author:Erik Parker

“Hip-hop is storytelling.”

Culture Hip Hop Storytelling Storytellers Youth Culture Counterculture

Author:Raquel Cepeda

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.”

Thinking Knows Mean Past Rocks Hip Hop Hips Hops Rock N Roll Living In The Past American Music

Author:Dan Auerbach

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

World Culture Youth Right Now Hip Hop Thee Hips Hops Dominant Youth Culture Dominant Culture

Author:Kurtis Blow

“Hip hop music and soul music have been the two main motivators for me musically. The music I make is hip hop soul, but I do make r&b music as well. I don't think I make r&b music to the point where I'm accurately categorized. There's more to what I have to offer and offer in the future. People could choose to respect it or not, but I pray that you do. As long as you get it, support it, and pay for it, it doesn't really matter.”

People Thinking Long Soul Support Praying Hip Hop I Pray It Support

Author:Musiq

“Hip hop music (and the entire category) is one of few that unite fans of all colors, races, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, ages and genders.”

Hip Hop Hip Hop Philosophy

Author:Carlos Wallace

Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.”

Giving Important Light Used Black Voice Race Youth Music Is Hip Hop Hearing Contemporary Hips Hops Shed Topics Hip Hop Music Black Youth

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

Source: Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop

“Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.”

Form Joy Beats Sitting Intelligent Strive Hip Hop Rhythm Hips Features Hops Offering Exhausted Scholarship Seductive Sample Soulful

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

Source: Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop

“Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having received the blessings from above to send young men to further their education.”

Men Wells Young Strong Pleasure Blessing Hip Hop Hips Young Man Enjoyment Hops Initiative Signatures Going Strong

Author:MC Lyte

“Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.”

Should Important Moving Grows Sound Conversation Music Is Hip Hop Hips Supposed To Be Evolve Hops Realising New Yorkers Going Through Changes

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.”

Hip Hop Coming Of Age Youth Culture Counterculture Disenfranchisement Lingua Franca 80s Hip Hop

Author:Raquel Cepeda

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.”

Long Different Soul Everyday Hip Hop Boundaries Hips Supposed To Be Hops Rapper New Things No Boundaries

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.”

Culture Appreciate Hip Hop Hips Hops Lanes

Author:Iceberg Slim

“Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.”

Years Shows Wanted Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Axel Alonso

“Hip hop, this is church. Church, this is hip-hop. Y'all need to meet. I know you have some misconceptions about them, I know you have some misconceptions about them. Let's work through this because there's a lot of false perspective.”

Knows Needs Church Perspective Hip Hop Hips Hops Misconception

Author:LeCrae

“Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.”

Movement Hips Hops

Author:KRS-One

“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”

Literature Wise Hips Giants Primitive Jungle Sophistication

Author:Norman Mailer

“Hip is to know, it's a form of intelligence. To be hip is to be update and relevant. Hop is a form of movement, you can't just observe a hop, you gotta hop up and do it. Hip and hop is more than music Hip is the Knowledge, hop is the Movement. Hip and Hop is Intelligent movement”

Knows Form Movement Intelligent Hips Hops Relevant Updates

Author:KRS-One

“Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.”

Sound Hips Drummer Groovy

Author:Pat Morita

“Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!”

Wells Facts Movement Inspired Hips Irresistible Unreasonable Wilson Uncontrollable

Author:Medea Benjamin

“Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.”

Thinking Running Lasts Remember Night Lost Mouths Hips Insects Last Night Pigeons

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic

“Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.”

Died South Hip Hop Hips Hops Retarded

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could chew but you'd be an idiot to think I'm talking about how the South killed hip-hop or how New York isn't where it should be or where it once was. It was like, "Damn, I need to explain this?" But I thought, "Nah, the proof is right there. We should know what it is." I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.”

Thinking Audience Idiot Retarded

Author:Nas

“Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack.”

Heart Hip Hop Hips Hops Heart Attack

Author:Lil Wayne

“Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.”

Hands Together Culture Winning Athlete Hip Hop Brands Hips Hops Hand In Hand Pro Athlete

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.”

Different Facts Culture Stuff Sound Design Hip Hop Hips Hops Bass Tempo Visceral Electronic Music Sound Design

Author:Skrillex

“Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.”

Records Bases Hip Hop Hips Hops Collaboration Fertile Good Records

Author:John Legend

“Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.”

Rocks Connections Hip Hop Hips Hops Punk Punk Rock

Author:Cat Power

“Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.”

Want Artist Caught Hip Hop Hips Hops Phenomenon Thinker Mainstream Hip Hop Artist

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we wind up very highly sexual, and then we thug it out. Then things get a little funny again, with comedy and that kind of thing.”

Kind Littles Culture Grows Comedy Stage Wind Conscious Hip Hop Hips Breathing Hops Thug

Author:KRS-One

“Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.”

Sometimes Community Musical Hip Hop Hips Hops Barriers Demographics

Author:Prefuse 73

“Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.”

Accepting Limits Hip Hop Refuse Hips Hops

Author:LL Cool J

“Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.”

Kids Culture Right Now Drug Hip Hop Selling Hips Hops Rooted Wrong Things Selling Drugs

Author:Vince Staples

“Hip-hop culture itself has completely consumed everything involved in entertainment. When you think about basketball like the way those guys dress; I don't know if you notice but people care about how you dress these days.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Care Guy Culture Involved Basketball Dresses Hip Hop Entertainment Hips These Days Hops Consumed

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.”

Writing Able Next Names Stuff My Own Sun Happened Stage Paper Hip Hop Saved Hips Hops

Author:Joell Ortiz

“Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.”

Believe Strong Known Fields Identity Taught Males Hip Hop Hips Guts Hops Stand Alone

Author:Queen Latifah

“Hip-hop didn't invent anything… hip-hop re-invented everything.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Grandmaster Caz

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