Quotes About Hip-hop

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

I am learning how to dance hip-hop. I'm a good dancer when I dance salsa.

We went through an era of big dance records, an era of hip-hop being the biggest thing on the planet. The people who really break through are the people who are not afraid to express themselves in how they feel.

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.

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

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.

I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.

When you fighting in New York, I feel like it would be disrespectful if I didn't walk out with some legendary East Coast hip-hop.

My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to have to accept me or just not be a fan, I guess.

I want people to know that I'm not just another kid M.C. I'm actually a fan of good music and hip-hop.

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.

You have these megabrands who make most of their money off hip-hop culture. Where were they in the time of need?

I think it's so important that you want to be in the room with these people making music together, because that's what it's all about. Especially hip-hop music, because you have to be vibing.

There is very little room for humor and personality in hip-hop.

Forever, for me, it was just about trying to make it and become a known person and loved and revered in hip-hop and the culture. But then ,I even realized that that isn't really important. What's mainly important is just the fans and the connection that you have as a man and an artist.

The way you respect hip-hop is by being true to yourself.

Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.

I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.