Quotes About Culture

If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.

You got to treat Mobb Deep different because our fan base is different. Our fan base is in the 'hood across the world.

'Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.

I'm always going to be a hood chick. I like street clothes.

I'm from L.A. I grew up in the 'hood.

I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.

I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked.

Anthony Bourdain was the one who hooked me on Laos.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.

It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.

Hip Hop is very addictive.

I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.

Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.