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“I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.”

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“Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.”

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Author:Kid Cudi

“I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.”

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Author:Yelawolf

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

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Author:Yelawolf

“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.”

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Author:Yelawolf

“This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.”

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Author:Yelawolf

“I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.”

“As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.”

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Author:Emilio Estefan

“I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.”

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Author:Noel Gallagher

“I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe.”

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Author:Pitbull

“I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.”

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Author:Ishmael

“My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.”

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Author:El-P

“The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.”

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Author:El-P

“I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people - and I can be included in that category sometimes - that get frustrated feeling like maybe the industry has handcuffed itself, or trained its artists to do or think about music in a way that classically hasn't led to the greatest records in hip-hop.”

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Author:El-P

“I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.”

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Author:El-P

“I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.”

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Author:El-P

“There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.”

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Author:El-P

“For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.”

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Author:El-P

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

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Author:El-P

“Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.”

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Author:El-P

“Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.”

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Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.”

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Author:Matt Skiba

“I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.”

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Author:Matt Skiba

“Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That's what it's all about - get this money. That's basically what I'm saying.”

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Author:Nas

“It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.”

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Author:Nas

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

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Author:Nas

“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.”

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Author:Nas

“The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for that diversity is caught up in Hip Hop. So you have a generation that says, 'I'm gonna wear my sneakers, and I'm gonna wear my pants how I like themThen you have a generation that says, 'I did not get bit by dogs for you to conduct yourself this way. Then the younger generation says, 'Yes, you did. This is what freedom means.'”

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Author:Reginald Hudlin

“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

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Author:Federico Fellini

“Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.”

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Author:Ice T

“The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.”

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Author:Kendrick Lamar

“The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.”

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Author:Kendrick Lamar

“Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.”

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Author:LeCrae

“A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.”

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Author:Travie McCoy

“Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.”

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Author:Adam Kluger

“Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.”

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Author:Raquel Cepeda

“I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.”

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Author:Tablo

“Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.”

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Author:Billy Joel

“Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.”

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Author:Michael Eric Dyson

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

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band - individuals, not session musicians.”

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Author:KT Tunstall

“For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.”

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Author:Jacoby Shaddix

“When I die, so does hip hop.”

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Author:Eminem

“When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.”

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Author:Cyhi the Prynce

“The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.”

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Author:Curtis Jackson

“Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.”

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Author:LeCrae

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