Quotes About Culture

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

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

I am learning how to dance hip-hop. I'm a good dancer when I dance salsa.

It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it.

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.

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.

I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.

My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

Hip-hop was started on groups.

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

Though my music audience is cross-generational, like my television audience, my core demographic is people like myself. People who have grown up on hip-hop, but hip-hop doesn't necessarily speak to us any longer.

You have these megabrands who make most of their money off hip-hop culture. Where were they in the time of need?

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

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.

There is very little room for humor and personality in hip-hop.

Forever, for me, it was just about trying to make it and become a known person and loved and revered in hip-hop and the culture. But then ,I even realized that that isn't really important. What's mainly important is just the fans and the connection that you have as a man and an artist.

The way you respect hip-hop is by being true to yourself.

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.

Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.

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

We need a few more Kanyes, people that's really passionate about hip-hop and who keep it alive.