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Quotes About Hip-hop

It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist.
~ DJ Premier
I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.
~ Billy Squier
I always make hardcore songs, hits for the block.
~ Prodigy
Many of us were raised without a father, and the subject of deadbeat dads hits home in a lot of areas. Most of all, doing a song about being a father to your daughter flies straight in the face of the argument that says hip-hop is misogynistic.
~ KRS-One
I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.
~ Dash Mihok
I love listening to hip-hop and going to concerts with Jerome Boateng; it's my hobby.
~ David Alaba
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
~ Afrojack
A lot of people always see the EDM DJs as button pushers, especially when deadmau5 came up with that term. Well actually I started out as a hip-hop DJ and I won several awards in Holland for my skills.
~ Hardwell
You got to treat Mobb Deep different because our fan base is different. Our fan base is in the 'hood across the world.
~ Prodigy
'Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.
~ Mannie Fresh
We Can't Stop' was the first song we did. We didn't try to reach and be too 'hood:' It's hip-hop-influenced, but Miley's a pop singer, and she's going to have country in there.
~ Mike Will Made It
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
~ Dr. Dre
It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
~ Fat Joe
I'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.
~ Adrian Younge
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
~ Obie Trice
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.
~ Wang Leehom
I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.
~ Coolio
You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
~ G-Eazy
Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.
~ Amanda Seales
My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.
~ Lil' Kim
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.
~ Tracy Morgan
I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
~ Mahershala Ali
Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.
~ Troy Carter
Hip hop helped me learn about a whole bunch of American culture.
~ Rich Brian