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“There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.”

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Author:Solange Knowles

“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.”

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Author:Macklemore

“I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative... And for me, when I'm making music, it's all in my head, and all those influences in my head. So if something comes to me that's a reference from a different genre then people are used to hearing from me, I'm not afraid to go there with it.”

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Author:John Legend

“I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.”

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Author:Cornel West

“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.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.”

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Author:Nicki Minaj

“I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.”

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Author:Chuck D

“If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.”

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Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.”

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Author:Ronnie Wood

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

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Author:Mos Def

“When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.”

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Author:Ben Horowitz

“Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'”

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Author:Ben Horowitz

“The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.”

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Author:Sharon Jones

“For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.”

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Author:Ryan Lewis

“When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.”

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Author:Steven Sater

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

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Author:K'naan

“When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.”

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Author:G-Eazy

“I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.”

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Author:G-Eazy

“Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.”

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Author:Laurieann Gibson

“A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.”

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Author:Miguel

“My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.”

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Author:LeCrae

“For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the semantics of naming things to give them some kind of distinction but I think my faith is pretty distinct. If you want to call it hip hop, essentially it is. That's the art form.”

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Author:LeCrae

“I love hip-hop videos. It was not meant as disrespect. I used to watch those videos and think, "Are these guys kidding? They've got to be kidding!" But they're not and that in itself is what makes them good.”

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Author:Chris Cunningham

“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.”

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Author:Prince

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

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.”

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Author:Questlove

“The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside. Take a moment off your computer, put on your tennis shoes, hop outside and help them start their game and run off some energy.”

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Author:Summer Sanders

“Parasites are not only incredibly diverse; they are also incredibly successful. There are parasitic stretches of DNA in your own genes, some of which are called retrotransposons. Many of the parasitic stretches were originally viruses that entered our DNA. Most of them don't do us any harm. They just copy and insert themselves in other parts of our DNA, basically replicating themselves. Sometimes they hop into other species and replicate themselves in a new host. According to one estimate, roughly one-third to one-half of all human DNA is basically parasitic.”

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Author:Carl Zimmer

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

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Author:Kendrick Lamar

“I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.”

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Author:Mark Wahlberg

“One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.”

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Author:Common

“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.”

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Author:KRS-One

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

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Author:KRS-One

“There's a Universe Instrument, where we apply Hip-Hop to astronomy, and we flush out the chemistry of Hip-Hop. We also flushed out the astronomy, to see where Hip-Hop is read in the stars.”

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Author:KRS-One

“I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.”

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Author:KRS-One

“When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing.”

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Author:KRS-One

“I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.”

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Author:KRS-One

“Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.”

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Author:KRS-One

“It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.”

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Author:KRS-One

“If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.”

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Author:KRS-One

“I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.”

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Author:Britney Spears

“I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously."”

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Author:Ice T

“Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.”

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Author:Ice T

“What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."”

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Author:Ice T

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

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Author:Ice T

“I like hip-hop, I like yay music.”

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Author:Zacky Vengeance

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