264 Quotes About Hip-hop

The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

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 noncompliance with the status quo creates alternative, counterhegemonic spaces.

This kid was writing saying that they were breaking down some of the racial lines in their towns and communities, because their break dance crews were mixed race, and they didn’t give a fuck. They didn’t care what the Klu Klux Klan said.”- Michael Holman (screenwriter, Basquiat)from nthWORD Issue #8, coming soon...

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

Stories fill my mind just as sand fills a vase.

If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work

It ain’t about keeping real, it’s about keeping it right.

Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.”