Quotes About Hip-hop

I grew up hip-hop dancing; I've always wanted to create music that I could dance to.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.

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

I just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop.

We need a few more Kanyes, people that's really passionate about hip-hop and who keep it alive.

Especially in hip-hop, no one takes responsibility for their actions.

I've always been like the No. 1 Boston hip-hop fan.

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the 'Pimp a Butterfly' sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. 'I want it to sound like it's on fire,' he'd say. That's the kind of common ground that the best jazz and the best hip-hop have.

I was always attracted to music that moved people. Whether it be gospel, R&B, folk, hip-hop, pop, alternative rock - whatever moved people, whatever made a crowd just get lost in the moment.

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

I always say that I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm definitely a Drake fan.

I would have to be traditional and say that my favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.

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.

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

I've never been a mega-star. I'm more of a tastemaker of hip-hop. I try to be more of an ambassador for the era of hip-hop that I came in.

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

I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.

At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.

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