607 Hip-Hop Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it. Dave Itzkoff

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Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop. Daveed Diggs

Think Broadway Indifferent Hip-Hop Need Needed

The age of the rock star was coterminous with rock n' roll, which, in spite of all the promises made in some memorable songs, proved to be as finite as the era of ragtime or big bands. The rock era is over. We now live in a hip-hop world. David Hepworth

I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is. David Sanborn

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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music. Diplo

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The traditional media never gave Bernie Sanders the time of day. But he went viral the same way hip-hop and new dances go viral. And I'm part of that culture. Diplo

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

Music Bach Take Bebop Hip-Hop Any Turn Series Numbers

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change. Doug E. Fresh

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People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop. Doug E. Fresh

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When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture. Doug E. Fresh

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In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not. Dr. Dre

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When I'm running, I like to listen to dance music and hip-hop. Dylan Lauren

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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies. Eddie Murphy

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The thing about hip-hop producers, and the thing about hip-hop musicians, is that we listen to everything. And we're inspired by everything. I'd say even more so than any other genre of music. El-P

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I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. El-P

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I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form. El-P

Art Impossible Think Hip-Hop Art Form Form Dying

2017 saw a slew of big pop and hip-hop records, a number of breakout female singer-songwriters and all-girl bands, and the return of beloved '60s soul artist Don Bryant and pop star Kesha. Elizabeth Flock

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I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz. Elle Fanning

Jazz Also Hip-Hop Ballet After-School

Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him. Elvis Mitchell

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I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him. Estelle

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