“ 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… Skrillex
“ Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kin… Kendrick Lamar
“ Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change. Doug E. Fresh
“ I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop. Doug E. Fresh
“ That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it. Kid Rock
“ While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fa… Bell Hooks
“ 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
“ As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward dominant values and noncomplian… H. Samy Alim
“ I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way t… Jillian Hervey
“ Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness. BJ the Chicago Kid
“ As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic grounds but on social judgement, biases, and stereotypes that… H. Samy Alim
“ Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately. Jose James
“ In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief Laura Goode
“ I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it. Madlib
“ Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ In those years, hip-hop saved my life. I was still half alien to the people around me. I loved them, mostly because I'd realized that there was no other choice. Hip-hop gave me a common language, but… Ta-Nehisi Coates
