Quotes About Culture

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

Without hip-hop, Da Brat wouldn't exist.

For me, hip-hop's not about the bling.

I love the hip-hop nation.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will make some kind of change.

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

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

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.

Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

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.

I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know all their stuff.

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, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.

I'm born and raised in Georgia, so I have a lot of appreciation for hip-hop, but I want to be able to show the emotional side of me.

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

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.