Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.