What is Hip Hop and Rap…
the Black Man Speaks!

"Rap is what we do. Hip hop is how we live!"
- Rapper KRS One

Hip Hop is much more than the music we bounce to. Hip Hop is the way we walk, talk, dress and act. Hip hop is a lifestyle, it is a state of mind and a state of being.

- Rapper Elusion

Hip-hop is the soul and driving force of Black culture. It is defined by bling-bling, how many whips you sportin and how many hoes you bangin! 

- DJ King James

Hip hop is a movement that will never die.

-Rapper K-Dog

Hip hop speaks it's own language and has it’s own fashion, attitude and spirit.
- Rapper Criminal Intent

Hip-hop means the whole culture of the movement. When you talk about rap, rap is part of the hip-hop culture. The emceeing. The deejaying is part of the hip-hop culture. The dressing, the languages are all part of the hip-hop culture. The break dancing the b-boys, b-girls...how you act, walk, look, talk are all part of hip-hop culture...and the music is colorless.

- Afrika Bambaataa

Hip Hop is graffiti, break dancing, explicit lyrics, hard core rapping, Djing and the street life.

- Ricky Tan

Hip-hop is not an industry. It’s about our slang and language, our outlook and our culture.

- DJ TKO, a young black man

Hip Hop is about raising hell, making a statement, bucking the system and not giving a F**k bout what anybody thinks!

- Rapper Ice Q

Hip Hop is an attitude, a swagger… its about gaining power, respect money and street credibility, its pimpin them hoes, trappin all day and partying all night!

- Street Hustler D Train

Hip Hop is Tupac, 50 Cent, The Game, Akon, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Crime Mob, Young Jeezy, The Game, Ludacris, Rich Boy, Notorious B.I.G.....

- Rapper Trigga Nigga

"Hip-hop is the Black man’s cultural expression, passed on by our African ancestors that inspires our future generations to greatness…”

- Young Black man attending Morehouse College

Hip Hop is all about the thug life, rap music and flossin on BET, Park 106 and MTV.

- Professor Big Pimpin PhD.

Hip Hop is the downfall of Black America… mother whose two sons, both aspiring rappers, were murdered in cold blood by another black man.

- S. Thompson

People who think hip-hop is just another genre of music are dead wrong! Hip hop is more than music, its more than a movement, Hip hop is a way of life that ignites raw unbridled passion.

- Cynthia A.,  a Hip Hop Honey

Hip-hop is a culture. It's the way we talk, the way we dress, the music we groove to and the way we walk. It's about the gang life, living in the hood and kickin it with yo homies.

- DJ Night Stalker