Quotes About Hip-hop

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

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

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

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'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 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.

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

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

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac.

I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

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

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

I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I love rock and everything.

I really want to be the black Mr. Rogers - that's my goal. I would do everything the same but with a hip-hop feel to it.

I love the hip-hop nation.

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

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.