Quotes About Hip-hop

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

Ol' Dirty used to come out to Queens and spend the night at my crib a whole lot.

There are really three parts to the album, and there's, like, quite a lot of hip-hop on there. I guess it is a worry that people who love 'Human' might think they're buying the album and that's a blueprint for it, but it's definitely not. Hopefully they'll be pleasantly surprised.

I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical.

I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

I was raised listening to, like, Jay and Big and Pac, Cassidy, Ludacris, even some of Drake's stuff.

Ultimately, Dead Prez should have went multi-platinum. But when people didn't rally around them, I knew the black hip-hop audience had become far less politicized.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.

I know what a Gang Starr album that's done is supposed to sound like.

Gang Starr was like the blueprint of my career.

I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.

When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

Now I will bop my head to gangsta music - I'm not going to lie.

We gave the world dab fever!

I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

Oh man, I think Damian Lillard makes good music. He has bars.

I like good music. There's no specific genre as such. It can be hip-hop also.