Quotes About Diversity

One of the greatest attributes most Hindus have is acceptance.

I just don't think many people would have crossed the street to hear me doing a hip hop-influenced album!

My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that was the hip crowd. So I was being exposed to all these ideas, from Big Daddy Kane to Eazy-E to the Bay Area - Too Short, E-40 - you know, back to Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers.

I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'

If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American.

I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop fans.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

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

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

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.

I think the average country music fan grew up the same exact way that all the artists did, listening to hip-hop and country and R&B and pop and whatever it may be.

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.

I'm a hip-hop fan.

I love hip-hop, and everybody knows that.

I love the hip-hop scene.

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

I really want to be the black Mr. Rogers - that's my goal. I would do everything the same but with a hip-hop feel to it.

I love the hip-hop nation.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

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