Quotes of: Hop Keyword

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

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

Saul Williams

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.

Taylor Swift

Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.

Keith Sweat

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

Nick Cannon

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Eminem

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Kid Rock

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

Aloe Blacc

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

Eve

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.

G-Eazy

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Chris Lowe

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

Chuck D