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I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

— Tom Colicchio

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.

— John Legend

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

— Herbie Hancock

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

— Doug E. Fresh

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

— Nas

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

— Ariel Rechtshaid

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

— Questlove

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

— Talib Kweli

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

— Grandmaster Flash

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Wale

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.

— Flavor Flav