Quotes About Evolution

You're never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People give them a hard time, but it's like, 'I'm an artist, I'm trying to grow. I don't want to have the same album for 10 albums in a row!' Same thing for a martial artist.

After acting in several Hindi films, I have decided to be a producer.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.

You sort of get so lulled into thinking of yourself as this five-headed thing, the group, the band, The Hip. I guess you just forget it's a family, and like every good family, you can forget. But you're also committed to each other, so there's always room to grow, to learn and relearn.

Kids haven't changed since my day except they are more hip.

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.'

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it.

Though my music audience is cross-generational, like my television audience, my core demographic is people like myself. People who have grown up on hip-hop, but hip-hop doesn't necessarily speak to us any longer.

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.

I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started.

I'm not in that state of mind that I was back in '86 - hip-hop is not in that state of mind that it was back in '86. Times change. I change.

As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

In the future, hip-hop is going to be called American folklore.

When my time is up in hip-hop, it's going to remain what Afrika Bambaataa thought it was supposed to be. It's going to remain what Kool Herc thought it was supposed to be; what Wu-Tang Clan sees it as; what Outkast sees it as; what Snoop Dogg sees it as. People are trying to forget that brand of hip-hop.