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"This is church, this is where tens of thousands of people come to worship at the altar of heavy metal and the best to ever do it, Metallica."
"The music scene brings us together and reflects who we are, diverse, vibrant, and unique."
"If I die in a babymetal mosh pit, I'll know I lived my life."
"You can't have these moments that really move and affect, and I think they happen in basements and garages and small clubs all over America every single night."
"I love how cool they are, look at this, very like a rock and roll mood, right?"
"No Jumper became a hotbed for emerging SoundCloud rappers."
"Metallica's sound speaks to the core of metal culture."
"You know, if you've ever lifted up your lighter at a concert old school, you know when your favorite band plays that all-time ballad, you're gonna dig this channel."
"The jury, that 12, was well, they was okay, should I say? That's all I'm gonna say about that."
"Music has always had that but now more than ever and ironically this culture of sort of in a sense of persecuted minority in the United States becoming a global lingua franca says a lot about some of the positives of the modern world."
"The Blues means people being oppressed, white folks please stay away from our goddamn music."
"Baseline is legendary, man. I can't wait for y'all to do the actual real Baseline doc."
"I think we're about to hit the summer of Selena."
"It's hard to [ __ ] up a Tribe Called Quest movie."
"And Skrillex really showed the world that there was this whole other lane of aggressive electronic music that had kind of the same culture and energy as metal or post-hardcore."
"I feel like hip-hop belonged to you in a special way back in the day."
"All right, what else is important? I'm here for all the rap beef, R&B singer, whoever."
"Thomas Sowell became white and a hardcore rapper."
"The world lost a generational artist 21-year-old Jared Higgins aka Juice WRLD sadly passed away via overdose."
"Bruno changed the game, Bruno changed the game, yeah."
"Basking in the limelight, he bought a Wu-Tang Clan album for two million dollars."
"Zombie built this whole landscape of cursed dubstep music that existed in its own lawless parallel universe."
"Gatekeeping, especially in music, gets us nowhere."
"Facing difficult issues in society is at the core of hip-hop culture."
"It's super irresponsible to send your fan base after people doing their job."
"Floyd Zangoose with those David Bowie vibes."
"It's a religion for us more than just a style of music."
"People like fun. Fun means hanging out, dancing, laughing, having drinks, meeting new people. Rock needs to be the soundtrack to those good times."
"Rock in the 2000s was still capable of being the soundtrack to good times, even post-grunge. There was a variety of rock hitting the top of the charts."
"Rock fans and bands need to take a chill pill and remind themselves of what made rock and roll popular in the first place: people like fun."
"I wasn't a big fan of this car but it ended up becoming kind of like a mascot for the band."
"This violent ass concert is only going to elevate this man to a higher status."
"Riley isn't putting on as big of a facade as Gangstalicious. The music, the culture that he consumes made him who he is."
"Hip-hop is always hip-hop... it's like being at a safari."
"It's a cool feeling, you know? It's like I saw the band first type of [ __ ]."
"Blackened has even lent its name to the 80s band Metallica's own brand of high-end whiskey."
"So what do you say to somebody you hate and he wouldn't try to bring trouble your way want to resolve things in a bloody way just study a tape NWA"
"Nothing could stop me, I'm all the way up." - Rapper French Montana on his $165,000 wager on Khabib versus Conor at UFC 229.
"These songs were all being played and the local like top 40 stations basically the whole point of that was no one was surprised by our Kelly's in your face sexual lyrics he was just one of many at this time."
"Let's take a moment to appreciate the teeth, you can lower the mic one time, Jay!"
"People dancing to records detaching from heterosexual courtship rituals."
"Fleetwood Mac baby, you can go your own way."
"Ruff Ryders Anthem let's not play yo shut them down open up shots."
"Nashville has become like the epicenter of partying, and I think people just really love being here for the music."
"We need some more alternatives to this gangster rap."
"Hip-hop found me, like a mother with a child."
"If loving this culture is a sin, I'll die a hundred times."
"Raindrops, drop tops, smoking on cookie in the hotbox."
"Respect for lyricism is the game, ain't none left."
"The real hip-hop exists within the battle scene."
"Metal is supposed to be about strength of character and breaking new ground."
"George's impact on the vaporwave scene and how he has grown from it has been absolutely beautiful to watch."
"Rap is one of the last places on earth... based around motherfuckers trying to outdo each other."
"Microphone check one two what is this? The JBP boy, that's just different, man. This is different." - Joe Button
"BTS paved the way bro, how many people need to say it bruh?"
"It's a thing that I don't think Dreamville does. It didn't take itself so seriously." - Rob Markman
"It's hip-hop, man, we gotta have those conversations."
"Years later I received a letter in the mail from a young man inspired by party country... if I changed one or two lives, maybe it was worth it."
"As much fun as it is to look back at emo and kind of laugh at the goofy haircuts, I think we should also acknowledge that it made a real difference in the lives of a lot of people."
"The legacy of emo: You do have your nostalgia plays like Emo Night or the 20th-anniversary tours and stuff that do well, but there's more to it than just that."
"To say that alternative music has to look and sound like some specific arbitrary point in time like that would be the exact opposite of what alternative music and culture is supposed to stand for."
"I feel like we've reached the point in hip-hop culture and music where someone can drop a masterpiece and we call it the Illmatic."
"Is hip hop the new mafia? I don't think it's the new mafia."
"1993 must have been a wild time to live through as a hip hop fan."
"Yes, there are dependapotamuses and gold diggers and all kinds of people, and you can listen to a song from Kanye about that, but there's also guys who commit domestic violence, that rape people and do really terrible things."
"We're not talking about talking about dope and killing each other."
"The teenager with the heavy-lidded eyes and baggy clothes doesn’t conform to our usual expectations for female singers."
"Hip-hop and we don't stop, we ask all the wildlife in the head with a rock."
"Three Doors Down, who being from Mississippi, just looking at them now, that actually makes so much sense."
"I'm gonna be honest, I love hip-hop. I was raised off of New York hip-hop, that's the mecca of hip-hop."
"You gotta make it your own, you gotta just figure out that's hip-hop, right? That's hip-hop."
"Last thing I need is Snoop Dogg dogging me, man. Dog, you was like a damn god to me."
"Big thanks to you guys for making this adventure of the Nancy worship possible in the first place."
"Disco music is black music...and here are the people who are least likely to know what is good popular music: straight white guys."
"Mac Miller is a big reason, like he's the foundation of my fan base. A lot of his fans, like a lot of them, like extra extras."
"Hey yo, don't be mad UPS is hiring, hey yo, don't be mad UPS is high, it's now, it's like a thing, that's the thing."
"There is a moment where you're listening to these beat-up radios somebody's got a radio station running on I assume bat guano and you go in there and they're talking about Billy Idol showing up for a concert."
"Anthony Mackie is in the movie, he's the main bad guy and he's the leader of this rap group slash gang or something called the Free World."
"BTS and Army continue to lift each other up, fighting against prejudice, just as BTS does."
"Hip-hop is different than other genres of music."
"BTS Army: raising their voices and standing with BTS in support of the underrepresented values."
"I think a lot of older people forget what it's like to be your age, like, yeah, I remember when I was like young and I was saying Jay-Z and [ __ ] old enemies like he can't [ __ ] with Rakim."
"Dance Gavin Dance: the idealized version of the plaid shirt and Telecaster math rock guy."
"Their fans are not just fans, they live and die for this band."
"Remember when rappers like had something to say and you only heard it when they were rapping? They didn't tweet it, they didn't InstaLive it, it wasn't YouTube-able. Like Kendrick is still one of the only ones that do that."
"Fans all up in the session saying hi, max, they smoking weed on the daily, yo the stress to society, you know it's got me going crazy."
"I don't care enough about the band, I just am certain that this random singer from this random fucking rock band in the 90s is like a trans person working for Satan."
"Our music and its history exemplify this. Queerness gives way to liberation."
"It's moments like this one that truly give us hope that rock and roll is going to live forever."
"In an era when we're watching the essence of rock and roll great music die before our very eyes, it's moments like this one that truly give us hope."
"If your number one rapper today right this minute has his booty spread on his album cover, you need to respect some damn hip-hop history."
"Things really fell apart after FBG Duck was killed in August of that year."
"I cried. I have been a Tina Turner stan since I first saw 'What's Love Got to Do with It' when I was like four or five. Yeah, that's too young to be watching, but it made an imprint and solidified my obsession with Tina Turner."
"A political band that actually had machine guns as a band."
"I'm a high school dropout and I went to the school of hip-hop and these are my teachers, that's a bar."
"This extraordinarily strange and nostalgic group of tracks is keeping the memory of this extraordinarily strange and nostalgic console alive."
"Damn, shout out to all the real hip-hop heads out there."
"This is not the well that we know of I guess like here's this is real Drake."
"It's a part of being underrated, you feel me? It's underground music to the core."
"Nick's political lyrics were pretty entwined with the band, a bit of a throwback to their prehistory before scum, coming from the anarcho-punk scene."
"Mega tonal [ __ ] hey... things will kick off more extremely from now on."
"You don't get to misappropriate all our culture... you're misappropriating punk rock culture."
"For Better or Worse what it comes down to is that black metal is one of the last true genres of Outsider music."
"Who makes songs about gin and juice, you know what I mean? That's inspired."
"The movie showed us what it was like to be a Beatle."
"Hip hop was never about like just are you the nicest with a pen. It was just like, 'Yo, do you make things that people enjoy?'"
"Rock and roll's not dead, and some guy Billy Joel said it's all rock and roll to me."
"303. you gotta do the you gotta do the head yeah I'm a vegetarian and I'm [ __ ] scared of him that's not a rhyme wait what's the line before that tell your boyfriend if he says he's got bees I'm a vegetarian and I'm [ __ ] scared of him."
"Vienna's music scene thrives year around."
"MTV was at the forefront of music culture and truly they influenced every generation."
"Hardcore is so different. It has a long memory."
"Nobody's bigger than the culture and bigger than music. Yeah, so I think I just think that it sets the tone and it puts a different energy out there like, you know what I mean, yes."
"Imagine you're favoring your favorite, your fave. Look at how these barbs will ride for Nicki and they haven't even seen her."
"No matter what, Badfinger, not the Beatles. No matter what you are, I will always be you."
"This whole rap is basically Royce just being a dawn."
"Hip-hop exists in multi-dimensions. It's not about objects, it's about energy."
"Rock is the devil's music. Iron Maiden wants to summon the beast, and Ozzy bit the head off a bat."
"Two generals, you know, east coast west coast generals, diffusing the beef right there so nobody else gets hurt."
"Best known for founding the rap trio N.W.A. with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, Eazy-E was born Eric Lynn Wright in 1964."
"350,000 people showed up to hear the greatest rock groups."
"If you believe that DIY punk rock is important and you want more people to discover it, which I do, then you should want bands like Rancid."
"He always made underground mixtapes, so he was a part of the culture that I looked up to."
"Hip hop brings people that are black that are white that are Asian that are poor that are rich together."
"Hip-hop is just rebel music, you know I mean whatever your mom and your dad into you want to be into that [ __ ] you want to be into some different stuff now."
"Rock's gonna do that yeah you know DJ M homie right because all you morons yeah sure."
"Bleecker Bob's, it was my all-time favorite. It was a paradise, you know."
"Lady Gaga and Versace have collaborated on a T-shirt and a bearing that say 'Born This Way'... 30% of the proceeds go towards Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation."
"People love t-swizzle man you wake up the swifties oh man oh man."
"And the reason pop did hit him up was because of Eric B & B D because they told them y'all gotta stop talking about New York [ __ ] like you know New York [ __ ] ain't serious out here."
"This guy's a groupie this guy now I'm not groupie I'm just a fan there's too many people that there's not enough fans in the world that's why I should is whack nowadays there's nothing wrong with being a fan of someone."
"Black leather on the upper and contrasting yellow swoosh salutes to 80s album colors and streetwear that defined alternative rock at the time."
"It's literally just for my fans, so we can go on tours, so we can have music to listen to, so we can have merch to wear, and so the legacy continues."
"Music culture right now is [ __ ] crazy cool right now."
"The difference between a regular mosh pit and a Christian Mosh Pit is when somebody falls down everybody goes, 'Stop, let's mosh for the Lord,' right back to it dude."
"Nobody gets hurt in the Christian Mosh Pit, it's a supportive environment, makes you feel good."
"The old sound systems played for their people, promoting a message of truth and rights."
"While Little B's music is often considered satirical in nature, his music would differ significantly from the growing culture of rap parodies online. Instead, his based Aura was incredibly authentic."
"Their offstage behavior also kind of presented them as the next chapter following The Who and the pistols Oasis's behavior was very counter-cultural, controversial, and incredibly exciting."
"Now, when rappers the light jumped off, rap was on the scene at that minute. We was rapping since 1973, even before that. But the rap we do today is from '73."
"Every hip-hop fan knows about the beef."
"This was tough, this one is tough, it just depends on your preference, your vibe, you know? Speaking on preference and vibe, I like the little Dom Kennedy West Coast look that flight got on, man, flight, the gold flight."
"'120 Minutes'... It was a point of honor among bands on 120 minutes not to show up in regular rotation on MTV. They wanted to be the bad kids on the block, who showed up for those two hours on Sunday and ran riot."
"...this scene truly paints a picture of a music scene where everyone is welcome and the only thing they hate is hate."
"...it was super cool to see all these staple pieces of suicidal history compiled into one little display..."
"Austin, nicknamed the live music capital of the world."
"One of the most wonderful things about being an older dead head now is that I meet kids who were way too young to have ever seen Jerry but boy are they ever dead heads, they totally get it."
"it's a story of the mixtape culture and the DJ or the people that that use that medium to like get their music out there"
"The '80s was about dudes being thorough, you know? The music, the hip-hop, the scene, a lifestyle."
"A single person began to revive music across the world."
"A lot of black folks come from poverty. When we see a young brother with influence, it's inspiring."
"Acid house, Balearic beats, and outdoor raves inspired a new breed of British club kids."
"It was right time, right place, and what we did was we didn't leave it there, it became our lives."
"That's just instilled in us as kids, right? That's so important because it's the same premise from when you start in a rap group in the hood with your friends."
"Finland is huge on the boisterous, loud, and flashy heavy metal culture."
"The radio, the record shops, and of course the clubs, you know, that was the Trinity, that was the Holy Trinity."
"This is actually a quickly developing neighborhood that was once the home of Biggie, Notorious B.I.G."
"It was the first sound, the first lifestyle that I thought, you know, I could really be a part of this thing."
"The greatest single thing about punk rock was DIY."
"Vintage guitars have become kind of a rite of passage."
"When you was making history, did you know you was making history?"
"I've been around for 20 years... and you do things like 9 o'clock drop, I'm part of it, you know, I'm responsible for the post-punk scene."
"The history of this place absolutely fascinates me, but I don't think I'll ever get used to walking around Soho and seeing these venues and you know when Jimi lived and you know where David Gilmour bought his fuzz pedal, those sorts of places just blow my mind."
"Burkhein is a techno club in Berlin, known across the world as one of the best techno clubs ever."
"It's paint from the 1960s, from North Carolina at a place that painted landscape rocks and did the backdrops for Grateful Dead concerts."
"Being a New Yorker, I was very fortunate. There was so much music in New York."
"By adopting the surname Ramone... they became a unified front against the conventional norms of music and society."
"Hip hop music has always been a representative for different regions."
"He has that cult fan base, the biggest cult fan base within music."
"I love Steel Panther because they're simultaneously a perfect parody of 80s hair metal but then at the same time a wonderful celebration of 80s hair metal as well."
"You're white, I'm black, there's no need to fight, and that's why two-tone hence black and white."
"It's good for hip-hop, it's got people rapping again."
"I live in the haunted Death Cab for Cutie house."
"We are hip-hop baby and it's just cool to see good people win."
"Mashups were really huge during Indie sleeves, and TikTok has single-handedly brought back mashups into mainstream culture."
"Hip hop's the biggest thing, pretty much all over the world."
"It's the map guitar, the one that everyone has seen and has been used in everything Gibson related that says 'American made, World played.'"
"Popular grunge bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam caused a tonal shift in society towards a more rebellious attitude."
"The fans have never given up on Punk. Ever. It's crazy."
"The 90s are back, and everyone's looking like Billy Joel Armstrong with their leather cuffs."
"It's a small town with big music."
"This is a - Jay Z swapped Lexus GS 300 and some pretty good, it's pretty baller, let him hear it."
"You know Jon Bon Jovi of course, the lead singer and front man of the band, you know big Bruce Springsteen fan, very into this whole New Jersey culture."
"It's time for The Percolator. It's time for the percor. This changed the game, if y'all just couldn't hear the difference what we was playing before to this, this was the one that made everybody go crazy."
"Highlighting a music culture that is constantly innovating and breaking new boundaries."
"I love the idea of rock concerts being punk as hell and there's no rules."
"Music was not just entertainment, it was a way of life and a form of resistance."
"I think you get the fans that you deserve, and fans get the bands that they deserve."
"What I loved about the sort of 80s New Romantic Era, like their Spandau Ballet, was the way that the guys just didn't care, they got their makeup on."
"The presence of West Coast hip-hop was so strong in the '90s."
"I think that the colors on this kind of remind me of like a 1985 Cheap Trick album cover."
"At the end of the day, Purrp and company found a collective niche that was simultaneously cool and non-conforming."
"I feel like electric guitar is here to stay... it's such a key part of our culture, the music of our generation."
"If you're into east end or thrash riffs, drop C hardcore riffs, and dudes who never change their guitar strings, you're in the right place."
"Its lack of rules or real care for societal expectations led to the creation of a space where truly anyone, regardless of race, sexuality or identity, could be accepted as long as they had an appreciation for the music."
"Nashville, Tennessee, is the home of guitar playing."
"They embraced underground hip-hop and Lo-Fi, which at the time had very little representation."
"Every band has that one song where you got to pull out your lighter."
"This is making my little 90s boy band heart so happy."
"Hip-hop more so than just good music existing, there's got to be a communal vibe to it."
"We gotta praise you more, and if hip-hop ain't praising you right, off they nah, I'm gonna praise you, we gonna praise you."