#hip hop

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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The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars. ↗

— Vanessa Brown

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I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

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So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that? ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. ↗

— Talib Kweli

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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

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