Kobe Bryant
Professional Basketball Player
"Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff."
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Hips
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Saul Williams
Poet, Actor, Musician
"Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness."
Lee Morgan
Musician
"There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't."
Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem."
Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around."
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"Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans."
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"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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"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."
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"Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack."
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"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."
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"At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated."
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"If you're trying to be hip, be hip."
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"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."
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"Growth and value investing are joined at the hip."
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"The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that."
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"he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins."
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"It's either hip or it ain't."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Hip-Hop started out in the heart"
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"I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy."
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"Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'"
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"I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music."
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"I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much."
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"You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop."
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