#hip hop

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

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

— Roy Ayers

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I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures. ↗

— Talib Kweli

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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

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

— Grandmaster Flash

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We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

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

— Coolio

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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop. ↗

— Obie Trice

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If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. ↗

— Michael Winslow

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