“Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.” IfsBreakRight NowHip HopHipsHopsDocumentariesTaking A Break Author:Michael Rapaport
“Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.” Right NowHip HopHipsHopsDetroitMecca Author:Obie Trice
“That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.” RecordsRight NowHip HopRapHipsHopsSoloFuturistic Author:Alan Vega
“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.” IfsFeelsGrowsGrowing UpGenerationsYouthSonRight NowClothesHip HopHipsHopsMy SonFountainFountain Of Youth Author:Ice T
“I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!” IfsKnowsKindI CanGuyGirlSoundMy OwnCarMovementMinesRight NowClothesTrackHip HopHipsHopsRapperJewelryMaterialisticStylistDisillusionedGangsta Author:Ice T
“Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingMindArtUsedArtistNextVoiceLevelsCreativityTechnologyToo MuchDangerRight NowReflectionArt IsMachinesHip HopHipsHopsEfficientNext Level Author:Del tha Funkee Homosapien
“My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own.” PeopleThinkingKnowsArtCausesBalanceRight NowMassConcernHip HopHipsHopsRespondingNot Responding Author:Black Thought
“Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.” KidsCultureRight NowDrugHip HopSellingHipsHopsRootedWrong ThingsSelling Drugs Author:Vince Staples
“A couple years ago it was really hard for me to sing, because there's so much pressure in hip-hop to be a certain way. My biggest thing right now is doing me, because I'm not like other rappers.” WayYearsHardCertainCoupleRight NowYears AgoPressureHip HopHipsHopsRapperDoing Me Author:SonReal
“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.” PastThreeEasyLinesCarListeningRight NowWindowHip HopAlbumsClubsHipsHopsThree Times Author:Pusha T
“New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.” IfsThinkingWholeCareGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkChangedRight NowClothesHip HopDon't CareBunchHipsI Don't CareHopsFollowersBack WhenHip Hop Music Author:Phife Dawg
“What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.” WantGivingSeemsArtistGamesRight NowHip HopHipsHopsNeighborhoodRapperHoodParameters Author:Rakim
“What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America.” AmericaEconomyIndustryRight NowHappeningsHip HopHipsHopsAffected Author:RZA
“I'm not going to listen to the hottest Hip Hop station in my city because that's not where I'm at right now. I'm going to listen to the smooth jams of the 90's and early 2000's. That's where I am and that's where my audience is.” CitiesAudienceRight NowHip HopHipsHopsStationsSmoothJamHottest Author:Ginuwine
“I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.” PeopleThinkingFunRight NowBeatsSingingHip HopHipsHops Author:Wiz Khalifa
“I thought that the R&B / Hip-Hop world really hasn't been explored on film and there's some issues that we're going through right now. It's in a very dangerous place , for women especially, both in terms of the songs that men are singing about. You know, R&B used to be a safe place for women and now it just seems like the songs coming out are so angry but also what women have to come out with. You have to get noticed. You see, it's like a script to follow. You come out hyper sexualized but what happens when you can't pull back from that. That's not authentic to yourself.” KnowsMenWorldSeemsHappensFilmUsedSongTermIssuesDangerousRight NowSafeSingingAngryScriptsHip HopUsed To BeHipsHopsComing OutHyperSafe PlacesDangerous Places Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.” IfsRight NowHip HopPopsHipsHopsEuthanasia Author:Justin Timberlake