I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop. – Donald Byrd
Right now I’m taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up. – Michael Rapaport
So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it. – Michael Rapaport
Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I’m hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn. – Fab Five Freddy
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations – when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully. – Phil Anselmo
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I’m a radio kid. – Mario Vazquez
I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop. – Nas
I don’t really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That’s one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless. – Nick Robinson
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
We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, ‘This sound is Puerto Rican sound.’ – Daddy Yankee
Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack. – Eminem
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. – Pitbull
I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. – Nas
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. – Nas
My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin’ 4-Tay. – Marshawn Lynch
There’s been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it’s used as a joke – isn’t it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric. – Lin-Manuel Miranda
We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings. We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets. – Michael Steele
I don’t think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren’t intimidated. – Missy Elliott