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“I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.”

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Author:Ice T

“Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.”

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Author:Chuck D

“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.”

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Author:Chuck D

“One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.”

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Author:Chuck D

“People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.”

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Author:Chuck D

“I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.”

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Author:Soulja Boy

“When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.”

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Author:Swizz Beatz

“I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.”

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Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.”

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Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.”

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Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.”

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Author:Aloe Blacc

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

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Author:Aloe Blacc

“In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.”

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Author:Aloe Blacc

“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.”

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Author:George Clinton

“I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.”

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Author:Kid Cudi

“My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.”

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Author:Kid Cudi

“The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.”

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Author:Jack Antonoff

“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.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.”

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Author:Patrick Carney

“There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.”

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Author:Don Cornelius

“But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.”

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Author:John Cena

“I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.”

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Author:Jenna Dewan

“When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.”

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Author:Kim Deal

“All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.”

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Author:Brian Austin Green

“In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.”

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Author:Brian Austin Green

“I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.”

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Author:Chadwick Boseman

“I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.”

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Author:Phife Dawg

“We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.”

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Author:Puff Daddy

“I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.”

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Author:Puff Daddy

“I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.”

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Author:Elle Fanning

“I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.”

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Author:Chad Hugo

“I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.”

“I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.”

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Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.”

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Author:Zaha Hadid

“When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.”

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Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.”

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Author:Etgar Keret

“Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann

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