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Forever, for me, it was just about trying to make it and become a known person and loved and revered in hip-hop and the culture. But then ,I even realized that that isn't really important. What's mainly important is just the fans and the connection that you have as a man and an artist. Logic

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The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat. Ludacris

Made Community Everybody Eat Hip-Hop Lot Up Get Trying

So when I'm listening to music, I'm listening to a lot of hip-hop to be inspired and to hear new things. Ludwig Goransson

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We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop. Lukas Forchhammer

Soul Jazz Most Genres Hip-Hop Mix Lot Pop Agree

I was always attracted to music that moved people. Whether it be gospel, R&B, folk, hip-hop, pop, alternative rock - whatever moved people, whatever made a crowd just get lost in the moment. Luke James

Music People Made Lost Whatever Folk Crowd Attracted Alternative Gospel Rock Always Hip-Hop Get Just Moved Whether Pop Moment

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade. Lupe Fiasco

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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

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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change. Maajid Nawaz

Change Black Islam Nation Embraced Towards Prior Hip-Hop His Began Very Nationalist Movements Form Moving Much

Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of color, both hotbeds of cultural innovation: think hip-hop and jazz. Both are waterfront communities that host both industries and residents in close proximity of one another. Majora Carter

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Though my music audience is cross-generational, like my television audience, my core demographic is people like myself. People who have grown up on hip-hop, but hip-hop doesn't necessarily speak to us any longer. Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Music Myself People Speak Television Though Longer Like Demographic Audience Hip-Hop Up Any Us Who Grown Grown-Up Necessarily Core

You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that's how we fit in. What makes it all confusing - and this is where it's the gift and the curse - we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn't everybody's thing. Mannie Fresh

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The reason that I like 'Game of Thrones' is because it's based on all these royal families. And it's cutthroat - just like hip-hop. It's all about positioning and figuring out who's going to last. Mannie Fresh

Game Positioning Out About Like Because Hip-Hop Families Going Just Game Of Thrones Reason Figuring Based Royal Last

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. Mario Vazquez

Love Jazz Latin Kid Stuff Alternative Hip-Hop Sounds Radio

Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things. Marvin Sapp

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties. Mary J. Blige

Time Nothing Teenager About Outside House Parties Hip-Hop Block By The Time

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey. Mayer Hawthorne

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I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. Mayer Hawthorne

Music Soul Rapper Heads Make Soul Music Hip-Hop Were Sample Want

I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like 'Clockers' to playing a doctor on 'ER' to doing '8 Mile,' where I'm in charge of the hip-hop battles, I think it affects all kinds of different audiences. And I just try to keep that in mind, to keep people entertained. Mekhi Phifer

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I try to take elements from all kinds of music. Even if I'm listening to anything off the wall, like Britney Spears, there might be a certain way someone did something, that I can feel, in some hip-hop flavor. Metro Boomin

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Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics. Michael Eric Dyson

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting. Michael Eric Dyson

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