A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
Roy Ayers

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
Taryn Manning

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.
Kool Moe Dee

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
Ice T

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
Jam Master Jay

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
Obie Trice

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
Francis Beaumont

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.
Grandmaster Flash

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.
Grandmaster Flash

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

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
Kurtis Blow

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
Chris Lowe

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
Afrika Bambaataa

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
Coolio

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.
Charlie Hunnam

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
Bubba Sparxxx

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
John Oates

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'
Tommy Cooper

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
Patti LaBelle

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
Dr. Dre