Quotes About Hip-hop

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

Im really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.