Quotes About Hip-hop

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album Life Is Good, and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were "keeping it real" when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around.

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop.

I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

I knew Kanye way before he was signed.

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.

There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That's not me. I was very heavily influenced by rock & roll.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

First off, I absolutely hate the term 'trip-hop.' It was a term that made it seemed like I was trying to turn the music into something else. I was always influenced by New York hip-hop, since forever, since I was a kid.

My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.'

Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.