Quotes About Culture

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

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

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

I come from hip-hop - meaning that I don't mind if you come at me. In fact, I prefer it. But I prefer that you come at the show with credible critique.

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

My era was '90s Carhartt-and-Timberlands hip-hop. That's my rock n' roll.

I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

Since the '80s, Harlem has the place to go. Before the '80s, just as far as hip-hop go, Harlem has always been a strong point, fashion-wise, music-wise, all of that.

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

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

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 still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

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'm just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want 'cause I'm a fan of hip-hop.

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

I'm a hip-hop showrunner.

Honestly, what 'Luke Cage' is - it's a hip-hop Western. And you have Luke Cage as the sheriff of Harlem.

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

I am hip-hop!

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.