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Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.