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“Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.”

Art Energy Hip Hop Albums Driven Hips Hops Cheques

Author:Andre Benjamin

“Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.”

Different Form Style Music Is Hip Hop Educated Hips Hops Different Styles

Author:Aloe Blacc

“Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops Hardcore Edgy

Author:Yelawolf

“Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.”

Loses Common Race Generations Hip Hop Hips Hops Common Ground

Author:Jay-Z

Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

“Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop, The second a record was number one on the pop charts. But don't skip on the heart, it gotta start in the ghetto, Let no one forget about the hard part.”

Heart Hard Forget Numbers Records Hip Hop Pops Rap Hips Hops Ghetto Skip

Author:MC Serch

“Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get down. Our get down was more blue collar. Our aspirations were to shine a light on the plight and experience of the inner cities of America.”

Light America Cities Blue Shining Hip Hop Hips Aspiration Hops Vivid Collars Cosmetics Ethos Plight Inner City Blue Collar

Author:Lyor Cohen

“Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.”

Feelings Energy Knowing Goes On Elements Jazz Hip Hop Hips Hops Classical Music

Author:Robert Greene

“Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops Misunderstood

Author:Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

“Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. If hip-hop was a cake, all I can tell you is the eggs, the flour, the sugar, the vanilla - the ingredient years.”

People Ifs Years I Can Stories Heard Hip Hop Hearing Hips Hops Eggs Ingredients Cake Sugar Misunderstood Basements Vanilla Flour

Author:Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

“Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.”

Interesting Exciting Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Thomas Bangalter

“Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.”

People Way Mind Mean Has Beens Whole Use Problem Used Causes Hip Hop Hips Hops Conspiracy

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“Hip-hop has been so important in my work, because it speaks to the idea of money being tied to cultural capital in an honest and transparent way. When I was growing up in LA, money was equivalent to class, and it was a passport. Hip-hop emphasizes that, but Hollywood and show business bear it out. If you have money, there really is no barrier to social mobility. There are still social clubs in Newport where you can't get in even if you have money, but that is really rare.”

Important Speak Growing Up Honest Barriers Show Business

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.”

Firsts Has Beens Light Common Records Fans Musician Hip Hop Hips Hops Thread Music Fans Guiding Light Common Threads Light Of My Life

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to. Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology - peace, love, unity, and having fun - it has worked.”

People Country Together Fun Broken Unity Boundaries Ideology Thanks Having Fun Barriers Peace Love

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS)... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.”

Wells Art Different Whole Culture Fun Understanding Boys Break Movement Elements Unity Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Graffiti Graffiti Art

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.”

People Years Done Lasts Black Racism Hip Hop Hips Damage Brown Hops Black People

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.”

Thinking Done America Given Race Leader Music Changed Politician Relation Hip Hop Credit Statements Hips Hops Race Relations

Author:Jay-Z

“Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.”

Political Impact Hip Hop Hips Hops Conception Blackness

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.”

Seems Hip Hop Boundaries Hips Hops Adventurous

Author:Ariel Rechtshaid

“Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it never really got its just due. Now, hip-hop seems to be getting that recognition and is more widely accepted, which is great.”

Way Long Seems Culture Long Time Hip Hop Pops Dues Decades Accepted Recognition Hips Hops Pop Culture

Author:Adrian Younge

“Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities, all social classes, they're all there enjoying the game. Hip-hop has been one of the only forms of music that has provided that kind of atmosphere.”

People Way Kind Has Beens Age Form Games Social Sports Enjoy Class Hip Hop Hips Atmosphere Hops Ethnicity Social Class

Author:LeCrae

“Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.”

Has Beens Hip Hop Aliens Hips Hops Duplication

Author:K'naan

“Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.”

Beautiful Culture Hip Hop Hips Hops Survivor Nothingness

Author:Mos Def

“Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.”

Thinking Beautiful Community Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops Beautiful Things Millionaire Our Community

Author:Steve Harvey

“Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."”

Artist Culture Competition Hip Hop Hips Hops Better Than You Djs Graffiti Graffiti Artist

Author:Ice T

“Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.”

Has Beens Culture Messages Complexes Hip Hop Hips Hops Critique

Author:Bakari Kitwana

“Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.”

Expression Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.”

Ifs Culture Pay Attention Rocks Hip Hop Hips Pay Attention Genre Hops Embodiment Djs Recorded Music

Author:Chuck D

“Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.”

Perfect Hip Hop Hips Boxing Hops

Author:Jay-Z

Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

“Hip-hop is a vehicle.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops Vehicle

Author:Talib Kweli

“Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.”

People Voice Poor Hip Hop Hips Hops Poor People Voiceless

Author:Russell Simmons

“Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.”

Matter Seems Might Wanted Hip Hop Hips Hops Things In Life Finer Things Finer Things In Life

Author:Russell Simmons

“Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops Brilliance Pavement

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.”

People Humans Conditions Hip Hop Hips Hops Human Condition

Author:Immortal Technique

“Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.”

Trying Persons Lasts Moving Next Style Hip Hop Hips Hops Always Trying Always Moving

Author:El-P

“Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.”

Giving Years Three Five Four Giving Up Losing Hip Hop Circles Hips Winner Instant Five Years Hops Loser Gratification Instant Gratification Winner And Loser

Author:Questlove

“Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.”

Able Spirituality Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:KRS-One

“Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.”

Government Bigger Hip Hop Hips Hops Genres Of Music Contemporary Music

Author:Erykah Badu

“Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.”

New York Bigger South Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces the presidency to misogyny, although we've had misogynistic presidents. No one reduces our government to being solely homophobic, although we have a government with a don't ask, don't tell policy for gays and lesbians in the military.”

“Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.”

America Causes Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.”

Used Creative Originals Hip Hop Used To Be Hips Hops Original Music

Author:Missy Elliot

“Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.”

War Hate Fighting Black White Killing Hip Hop Producers Hips Hops Capitalist Diverse Distributors

Author:Bell Hooks

“Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.”

People Hip Hop Hips Hops Packs

Author:Eminem

“Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.”

Real Poet Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Melody Als Rapper

Author:George Clinton

“Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.”

Kind Doe Interesting Diversity Hip Hop Pops Hips Hops Pop Music

Author:Casey Spooner

“Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.”

Knows Form Know How Hip Hop Hips Aspiration Hops

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.”

People Thinking Ends Hip Hop Magazines Hips Hops Website Gatekeepers

Author:will.i.am

“Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.”

Should Hip Hop Noise Hips Hops Spotlight

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.”

People Ifs Enough Bigs Wealth Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Jay-Z

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