Quotes About Hip-hop

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

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.

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

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 love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

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.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

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.

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

When I'm running, I like to listen to dance music and hip-hop.

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

What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system.