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“Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.”

Author:Nelly

“Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.”

Given Rocks Jazz Hip Hop Pops Hips Hops Given Up Pop Music Indie Rock

Author:Jess Row

“Hip-hop is my girlfriend, hip-hop is my kid. Hip-Hop fills the void of the things that I don't have. I pay it 101% attention. I don't think I could be as good a father, or as good a husband or anything like that - the way I am as an artist - until I'm not an artist anymore.”

Thinking Kids Artist Father Attention Husband Girlfriend My Girlfriend

Author:Lloyd Banks

“Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment”

Enlightenment Universal Hip Hop Hips Hops Vehicle

Author:GZA

“Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.”

Way Culture Music Beats Dresses Hip Hop Hips Hops Top 10

Author:Erykah Badu

“Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.”

Problem Reality Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.”

Sometimes Hands Numbers Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?”

Hell Rocks Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Mos Def

“Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.”

People Character Hip Hop Bones Flesh Hips Hops Caricatures

Author:Questlove

“Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.”

Stills Party Consciousness Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Saul Williams

“Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.”

Art Form Artist Products Treats Hip Hop Hips Hops Standpoint Disposable

Author:Questlove

“Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.”

Culture Impossible Hip Hop Boxes Wide Statements Hips Hops

Author:Russell Simmons

“Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.”

People Want Stills Kids Hip Hop Hips Hops Old People Amazing Things Ugh Hip Hop Music

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.”

People Levels Education Hip Hop Uplifting Hips Hops Educate Making Changes

Author:Doug E. Fresh

“Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.”

Ifs Feels Grows Growing Up Generations Youth Son Right Now Clothes Hip Hop Hips Hops My Son Fountain Fountain Of Youth

Author:Ice T

“Hip-hop is the last true folk art.”

Art Lasts Folks Hip Hop Hips Hops Folk Art

Author:Mos Def

“Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because we both are communicating a message, just in different ways. Hip-hop artists talk, we sing. They rap forcefully, we sing gracefully.”

Different Purpose Artist Youth Communicate Rap

Author:Amadou Bagayoko

“Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.”

World Instruments Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Yelawolf

“Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.”

People Thinking Way Moving Hip Hop Hips Hops Openness Way Of Thinking

Author:Erykah Badu

“Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.”

Feels Speak Voice Streets Couple Elements Beats Hip Hop Hips Hops Urgency Livelihood Blunt

Author:Nas

“Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it”

Young Definitions Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Saul Williams

“Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.”

Universal Hip Hop Rap Circles Hips Hops Clown Circus Circuits Circus Clowns

Author:Eminem

“Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.”

Ifs America Black Focus Goes On Aspect Hip Hop Contrary Hips Hops Diverse Black America

Author:Prince

“Hip-hop is youthful. The youth determines which direction it's gonna go. I think your thoughts and your visions starts to change, and you start to pay attention to things, as far as the world goes, a little bit later on in life.”

Thinking World Attention Vision Youth Determine Pay Attention

Author:Lloyd Banks

“Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.”

Complexes Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Talib Kweli

“Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!”

Spiritual Black Movement Hip Hop Hips Hops Trends

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.”

Way Culture Effects Basketball Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.”

People Thinking Giving Done Jobs Political Very Good Hip Hop Hips Hops Good Job Maintaining Hip Hop Music

Author:Conor Oberst

“Hip-hop music in general kind of revolves around singles, and I appreciate that mindset, but at the same time, I wanted to go beyond that. It's not like I was intending to make a classic record - I mean, I'm always trying to make timeless music, but I really just tried to reference the music that on a road trip you can put in and not have to skip a track.”

Trying Kind Mean Appreciate Track Mindset Classic Timeless Skip Making Time Road Trip

Author:Alexander Spit

“Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.”

Littles Kids Age Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Little Kid Hip Hop Music

Author:Ryan Lewis

“Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.”

Trying Kind Different Opinion Hipster

Author:Alexander Spit

“Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.”

Trying Problem Information Offers Negative Hip Hop Hips Hops Platforms

Author:Busta Rhymes

“Hip-Hop started out in the heart”

Heart Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Hip-hop to me right now is really easy listening. It's very easy listening, like there's nothing abrasive about it. There's no album that I put in my car that makes me roll down the windows - all the windows - and ride past the club line three times before I get out the car.”

Past Three Easy Lines Car Listening Right Now Window Hip Hop Albums Clubs Hips Hops Three Times

Author:Pusha T

“Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.”

Rocks Lessons Hip Hop Hips Hops Rock N Roll

Author:Russell Simmons

“Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.”

Used Stuff Battle Negative Hip Hop Used To Be Hips Hops Exposed Breakdancing

Author:Houston Alexander

“Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."”

Feels I Can Reason Bigs Would Be Able Turns Stuff Sound Growing Up Nice Growing Mom Yeah West Hip Hop My Mom Rap Driving Horrible Hips Hops Coast Bass Gangsters West Coast Gangster Rap

Author:Moshe Kasher

“Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.”

Helping Feelings Needed Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Erykah Badu

“Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:will.i.am

“Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.”

Firsts Walks Audience Streets Mirrors Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops

Author:Derek Luke

“Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own.”

Real Fashion Inspired Real Love Sensibility

Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.”

People Way Trying Art Form Hip Hop Driven Hips Hops Masculinity Testosterone Egocentric Machismo Hip Hop Music

Author:Macklemore

“Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.”

Hip Hop Hips Canada Hops Exotic

Author:Nelly

“Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.”

Culture Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad

“Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.”

Want Made Parent Sound My Own Growing Up Growing Taste My Favorite Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops Favorite Music

Author:Grieves

“Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it”

Hip Hop Selling Hips Smoking Hops Cracks

Author:Mos Def

“Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.”

World Different States Whole United United States Streets Stage Areas Hip Hop Hips Hops Bronx

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.”

Ifs Looks Bigs Seems Might Kids Lasts Hip Hop Albums Positivity Hips Hops Ironic

Author:LL Cool J

“Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.”

Clear Movement Television Majors Critics Hip Hop Radio Hips Corporate Corporations Hops Representation

Author:Bakari Kitwana

“Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.”

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Author:Robert Greene

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