Grandmaster Flash Hip Quotations

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

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

If you think about the history of Hip Hop we've had artist who can talk about from socially significant ideas to something as cool as sneakers.