Quotes About Diversity

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

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

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.

My style is black. It's hip-hop. It's who I am.

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

Nah, I'm not one of those 'hip-hop is dead' people. I just like different artists. I never look at it as one entity. I've always felt like that.

I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to have to accept me or just not be a fan, I guess.

You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.

Hip-hop was started on groups.

I love hip-hop, but hip-hop is a way of life.

This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.

I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.