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Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
‐‐ Skrillex

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
‐‐ Cat Power

Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
‐‐ Nas

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
‐‐ LL Cool J

Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.
‐‐ Briana Evigan

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.
‐‐ Two Chainz

Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.
‐‐ Andre Benjamin

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
‐‐ Aloe Blacc

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
‐‐ Eminem

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
‐‐ Grandmaster Flash

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.
‐‐ F. Gary Gray

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
‐‐ Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
‐‐ Jay-Z

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.
‐‐ Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.
‐‐ Ariel Rechtshaid

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.
‐‐ Ann Powers

Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.
‐‐ John Legend

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

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

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

Hip-hop is a contact sport.
‐‐ Tory Lanez

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
‐‐ Nikki Giovanni

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

Hip-hop is a vehicle.
‐‐ Talib Kweli

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'
‐‐ Nigel Lythgoe

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

Hip-hop is all over the planet.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
‐‐ Questlove

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
‐‐ Nas

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
‐‐ Missy Elliott

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
‐‐ Brendon Urie

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

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.
‐‐ George Clinton

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.
‐‐ Theophilus London

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
‐‐ Nas

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
‐‐ Jay-Z

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.
‐‐ Keith Stanfield

Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together.
‐‐ John Legend

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
‐‐ Nas

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
‐‐ Questlove

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
‐‐ Saul Williams

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 supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
‐‐ Common

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

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
‐‐ Mos Def

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
‐‐ Dan Auerbach