Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.
‐‐ Erykah Badu
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
Hip hop is the strongest form of protest there is, and it doesn't always have to be a violent protest. It can be romantic, also. When you listen to Kanye West's 'Street Lights' for example, there's romance, there's pain - you feel the essence. I get the same thing from Drake and 2 Chainz.
‐‐ Giuseppe Zanotti
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
‐‐ Kurtis Blow
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
‐‐ Saul Williams
Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny.
‐‐ John Legend
Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.
‐‐ Flavor Flav
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
‐‐ Talib Kweli
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
‐‐ Lauryn Hill
Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It's something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson
Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.
‐‐ Nas
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 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
Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.
‐‐ LL Cool J
Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.
‐‐ Eminem
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
Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you wear your clothes, the items that you consume, all came with the music as an art form. And those things helped transform how people buy, shop, speak, engage.
‐‐ Steve Stoute
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
‐‐ Erykah Badu
Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.
‐‐ Alex Ebert
Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
‐‐ Derek Luke
Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.
‐‐ Nelly Furtado
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
‐‐ Afrika Bambaataa
Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.
‐‐ Jesmyn Ward
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
‐‐ Norman Mailer
Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
‐‐ Pat Morita
Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.
‐‐ Slick Rick
Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
‐‐ Slick Rick
Hippies are so phoney and fake.
‐‐ George Harrison
Hippies? Why, I'm the original.
‐‐ Jerry Lee Lewis
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
‐‐ George Ayittey
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
‐‐ Patricia Arquette
Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell
Hire passionate employees.
‐‐ David Filo
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
‐‐ David Ogilvy
Hire people who are smarter than you, and don't be afraid to work with them as partners. Make it clear that you plan to learn from them, not just the other way around. The right, smart, motivated people respond very well to that approach, particularly coming from a younger manager like I am.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz
Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
‐‐ D. B. Sweeney
Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa
Hiring's tough. It's not just filtering through hundreds of applications and blocking out big chunks of your day for interviews - those are the simple parts. The difficult thing is the nagging feeling that, despite your best efforts, the perfect candidate will somehow fall through the cracks.
‐‐ Leah Busque
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.
‐‐ Max von Sydow
His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk
His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
‐‐ Vincent Canby
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
‐‐ Oliver Hudson
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
‐‐ John McCarthy
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
‐‐ Emma Willard
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
‐‐ Red Skelton
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
‐‐ Clement Clarke Moore
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
‐‐ Richard Harris Barham
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
‐‐ Bridget Riley