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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama
Today
Communicate
Smart
Space
Way
Complex
Insightful
About
Remarkable
Message
Hip-Hop
Very
Short
Short Space
Thing
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
Chris Cornell
Attitude
Music
Beatles
People
Parents
Important
Style
Young
Think
Ramones
Elvis
Musical
Nirvana
Kind
Embraces
Mentality
Point
Absorb
Like
Terms
Became
Felt
Rock
Hip-Hop
Rock Music
Young People
Whole
Why
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
Nas
Music
You
Words
Back
Compromised
Voice
Beat
Raw
Feel
Days
Couple
Hip-Hop
Off
Blunt
Straight
Urgency
Your
Speaks
Livelihood
Elements
Street
Streets
November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
Afrika Bambaataa
History
Together
People
World
Political
November
Young
Politicians
Month
Hop
Systems
Give
Hip
Hip-Hop
Celebration
Political Systems
Done
Where
Young People
Planet
Bring
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
Eminem
Love
Buy
Music
Best
You
Car
Live
Think
Rap
Out
Rap Music
Find
Look
Period
Always
Hip-Hop
Tape
Going
Listen
Just
Deck
Personally
Radio
Thing
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.
Phil Anselmo
Heavy Metal
Band
Our
Guns
Remained
Through
Stuck
Metal
Hip-Hop
Still
Were
Huge
Very
Getting
Situations
Heavy
Many
Lived
Started
Grunge
Incorporated
Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.
Afrika Bambaataa
Evil
Somewhere
Down
Everybody
Type
Back
Corporate
Definition
Tell
Hop
Pushing
Instead
True
Well
Hip
Hip-Hop
Coming
Line
Been
Years
Legacy
Pioneers
Stole
Getting
Decided
Flipped
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
Amy Winehouse
Love
Good
Love Is
Pure
Sweet
Jazz
Exactly
Exactly What
Raw
Hip-Hop
Doing
Which
Elements
Now
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop.
Big Smo
Motorcycle
Me
Son
Old
Nephew
Three
Parents
Sister
Older
Brother
Wreck
Adopted
Through
Had
He
Him
Became
Around
Hip-Hop
Years
Than
Who
Exposed
Her
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
Busta Rhymes
Truth
Problem
Negative
Society
Tries
Could
Conceal
Also
Hip-Hop
Lot
Reflects
Escape
Offer
Where
Information
Platform
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.
Chuck D
Music
You
Culture
Pay
Pay Attention
Embodiment
Recorded
Part
Attention
Genres
Because
Rock
Hip-Hop
Roll
Actually
There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money.
DMX
You
Money
Free
Clothes
Hip-Hop
Any
Getting
Violence
Basically
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.
Deborah Cox
Truth
Music
You
Song
Dance
Long
Approach
See
Remix
Opinion
Hip-Hop
Doing
Version
Than
Any
Being
Different
Really
I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration. Life is short. I guess I'm lined up for a reason.
Doug E. Fresh
Life
Love
Me
Man
Generation
People
Communicate
Life Is Short
Better
Tool
Guess
Aligned
Say
Sun
Some
Something
He
Because
Genuinely
Always
Hip-Hop
Lined
Up
Short
Vibration
Create
Reason
Using
Preparing
Creator
Keeping
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.
Doug E. Fresh
Learning
Dimensions
Able
New
Styles
Always
Hip-Hop
Forever
Create
Why
There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which taught rapping and dancing. I begged my mom to attend that school to learn how to rap.
G-Dragon
Music
Time
Mom
People
School
Collective
Crew
Summer
Dancing
Rap
Rap Music
Rapping
Host
Attend
Learn
Access
How
Korea
Hip-Hop
Real
Real Place
Taught
Place
Which
Used
Program
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
Jay-Z
Music
Time
You
Together
Generation
People
Listening
Club
This Generation
Worldwide
Everywhere
Out
Bronx
See
Having
Having Fun
Partying
Hip-Hop
Least
Go
Same
Any
Done
Hanging
Just
Anymore
Fun
Why
Ever
Enjoying
Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real.
Jay-Z
Music
You
Business
Money
Mind
Resonate
Long
Beginning
Think
Broke
Some
Be Real
About
Touch
Something
Point
Well
Always
Making
Hip-Hop
Real
Been
Artist
Listen
Just
Them
Separate
Notion
Two
There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n' roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock n' roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know?
John Varvatos
Music
You
Soul
People
Country
Edge
Style
Every
Everybody
See
Dress
Bubbles
Know
Genre
Rock
Hip-Hop
Still
Rock Star
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Roll
Wants
Pop
Pop Music
Rebellious
Star
That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'
Lecrae
Faith
Me
People
Win
Fatherhood
Say
Able
Hip-Hop
Exists
Monogamy
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
Nikki Giovanni
Embracing
Hip-Hop
Cultural
Expression
I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.
Maya Angelou
You
Generation
Think
Enough
I Think
Count
Leaders
Like
Understand
Hip-Hop
Wonders
Whether
Them
Number
Hip-hop originated from the Bronx specifically; that means everything. I'm down the block from where hip-hop was born and raised, so I'm glad I am here and I'm able to represent New York the way I am.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Down
Everything
Way
Bronx
Able
Born
Glad
New
Am
Hip-Hop
Block
York
Represent
New York
Where
Means
Originated
Specifically
Here
Raised
There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.
ASAP Ferg
Music
You
People
Some People
Dope
Older
Back
Everything
Borders
Some
About
Cross
More
Blended
New
Like
Know
Hip-Hop
Go
Lines
York
Getting
New York
Want
Anymore
Now
Older People
Thing
For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.
ASAP Rocky
Day
Me
Crazy
Gay
People
Stupid
Big
Matters
Everybody
Topic
Hop
Seem
Case
Shame
Instance
Excited
Like
Because
Makes
Hip
Hip-Hop
Still
Issue
Gets
Upset
Even
Thing
I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.
ASAP Rocky
Music
Fashion
People
Before
Favorite
Favorites
Tried
Given
Lifestyle
Never
Like
Also
Course
Because
How
Hip-Hop
How Much
Listened
Just
Wanted
Much
Really
Appeal
Expresses
Things
Chance
Incorporate
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