Fat Joe Quotes

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

We were from downtown, so we were rapping in Danceteria, in these white downtown clubs, really. Nobody downtown was rapping. Nobody we knew was rapping. So we were like, 'We should do it.' We weren't making fun of it; we loved it, and we wanted to be part of it.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'

Rap music was and is, for me, everything.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

Hip Hop emerged fearlessly and unappoligeticly reflecting our society.

I like Badshah's songs, as they are very cool, catchy, and very young. I think that's very important... It's connecting with the youth.

Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

Pop culture mirrors culture, and, I think, as a rapper, hip-hop in a lot of ways mirrors the things that are happening in urban neighborhoods.