Quotes of: Hip-hop Keyword

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

Travie McCoy

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

Luther Campbell

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

Russell Simmons

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Michael Rapaport

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

K'naan

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Chad Hugo

I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

Luke Bryan

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

Estelle

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Coolio

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Emmanuel Jal

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

Derek Luke

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

Angel Haze

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

Seinabo Sey

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

Alanis Morissette

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

Brian McKnight

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

Bono

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

Common

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

Natalia Kills

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'

Sean Paul

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

Questlove

Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Sister Mischief