Quotes About Hip-hop

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which taught rapping and dancing. I begged my mom to attend that school to learn how to rap.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

New York is responsible for bringing that raw, that real gritty hip-hop, because we... originated it.

When people question me about whether something is hip-hop, I ask them, 'Does it sound hard? Does it hit home? Is it raw and real?' If it is, I did my job. And you can call it whatever you want.

Now if you call 'Ain't No Half-Steppin' ' or 'Raw' an old-school song, I agree with you. But if you call Big Daddy Kane an old-school artist, I disagree with you.

When hip-hop was new and raw, it was all about being an MC. You wanted to be respected as a lyricist. But as the years passed and hip-hop became big business, hip-hop became like country, rock and pop. And so you now have people who write the songs for rappers.

Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.

Politics changes music most of the time. Ronald Reagan - you can kind of say that he made hip-hop what it was by the embargoes that he set. Certain things that he did created N.W.A in a way. Politics has always done that.

The watch everybody rap about, I have in real life.

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

I could not have been a rapper in 1985 and thought, 'I want to be a millionaire.' That was not a realistic dream.

My favorite singer is Canton Jones, a gospel hip-hop artist - when I'm on the bus going to a game, I listen to him in my own little world, singing and dancing; he gets me ready to play every time.

The first album that I bought with my own money was 50 Cent's 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'.' That was, like, the 5th grade, 6th grade.

Hip-hop was born of people who did not have a voice. They were not heard. And those people exist and are a part of a framework of life... as long as that's true, people will gravitate to hip-hop.

I grew up on Public Enemy, which had a message with great music behind it.

The early '90s was the best time for hip-hop. The Cube's, the Snoop's, the Dre's - that was a golden time with great music, great albums, great groups, everything.

I think I been chosen to be a 2020 XXL Freshman 'cause, you know, I been rocking with XXL since I started, you know what I'm saying? They respect grind, you know?

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

When I play Migos when I'm in the gym I'm guaranteed to go hard!

Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.