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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. -- will.i.am
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. -- Zaha Hadid
I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music. -- Charlie Hunnam
I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience. -- Heavy D
My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years. -- Tina Yothers
I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music. -- Angel Haze
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. -- Talib Kweli
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. -- Roy Ayers
I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music. -- Diplo
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. -- Pitbull
The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. -- James Mercer
I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry. -- Patti LaBelle
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. -- Missy Elliott
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop. -- Tom Morello
Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles. -- Aloe Blacc
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. -- Tatiana Maslany
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
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. -- Darren Aronofsky
That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it. -- Alan Vega
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music. -- Adam Kluger
I like hip-hop, I like yay music. -- Zacky Vengeance
There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music. -- T. D. Jakes
Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music. -- Girl Talk
Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs. -- Nelly
All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music. -- Gustav Ejstes
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. -- Missy Elliott
All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture. -- Aeriel Miranda
I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music. -- Neil Drumming
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve. -- Erykah Badu
People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. -- Michael Franti
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing. -- Steve Coogan
Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does. -- Casey Spooner
I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready. -- Zoey Deutch
Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks. -- Erik Parker
Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music. -- John Legend
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. -- Afrojack
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. -- Fab Five Freddy
For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. -- Steve Purdy
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. -- Mayer Hawthorne
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. -- Theophilus London
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. -- Jess Row
One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly. -- Common
I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music. -- Donnis
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. -- Aloe Blacc
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. -- David Bowie
The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. -- Afrika Bambaataa
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop. -- Donald Byrd
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, -- Donald Byrd
Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice. -- lecrae
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. -- John Cena
I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody. -- Lupe Fiasco
When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music, -- Akon
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music. -- Chuck D
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. -- Brian Eno
I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music. -- Nicki Minaj
Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music. -- Lupe Fiasco
So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. -- B.J. The Chicago Kid
It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. -- Nas
Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B. -- TyDi
What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people. -- Saul Williams
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. -- Carrie Brownstein
I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me. -- Eminem
I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music. -- Saul Williams
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
I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me. -- El-P
I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me. -- Wale
Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think. -- Conor Oberst
I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah. -- Sean Paul
Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes. -- Erik Parker
I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged. -- Nicki Minaj
Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. -- Robert Greene
I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before. -- Natalia Kills
Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good. -- Bakari Kitwana
I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid. -- Matthew Morrison
It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs. -- Swizz Beatz
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around. -- G-Eazy
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything. -- Don Cornelius
I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite. -- Michael Isabella
So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music. -- Stephen W. Thompson
I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands. -- Britney Spears
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
At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it. -- Flo Rida
I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move! -- Sean Paul
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. -- Ronnie Wood
What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that. -- Carrie Brownstein
As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. -- Alanis Morissette
I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that. -- Dustin Lynch
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
Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free. -- Wale
Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop. -- Nicole Richie
I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways. -- Joaquin Phoenix
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. -- Kid Rock
I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!' -- Sean Paul
I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow. -- Kreayshawn

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