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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from."

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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
Hip Hop

"Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged"

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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
Hip Hop

"I know the game is crazy, its more crazy than its ever been, im married to that crazy b*tch call me kevin federline"

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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it."

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
Hip Hop

"Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough"

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
Hip Hop

"I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Hip Hop

"Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Hip Hop

"50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music."

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Pete Rock Music Producer, DJ
Hip Hop

"Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble."

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Aesop Rock Rapper
Hip Hop

"The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?""

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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
Hip Hop

"The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Hip Hop

"Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'"

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Mayer Hawthorne Singer-songwriter, Producer
Hip Hop

"Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy."

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