Russell Simmons Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: 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.

  Russell Simmons

  Ideas, People, Hip Hop

• America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

• Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

  Russell Simmons

  Things In Life, Hip Hop, Might

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

• Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Lessons

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

• Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

  Russell Simmons

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

• I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.

  Russell Simmons

  Jobs, War, Artist

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.

  Russell Simmons

  Commitment, Careers, Common Purpose

• I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.

  Russell Simmons

  Hip Hop, Hips, Offensive

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

  Russell Simmons

  Voice, People, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

• Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

  Russell Simmons

  Uplifting, Dream, Opportunity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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