Quotes About Hip-hop

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top and everything.

Black Ken' debuted number one on iTunes in hip-hop, and top five or ten top, top five on the whole iTunes, on all genres. It was really cool to be able to self-produce.

Toronto is obviously Drake city.

I worked with Tory Lanez.

I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

A lot of time we didn't know where we were going or how it was going to transition from fishnets into hip-hop ... But it's worked out. We believe in what we do and I think people get that.

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!

Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

Wigger: a young white who wants desperately to be down with hip-hop, who identifies more strongly with Black culture than white. (What's disturbing about this expression is its racist implications: if white kids down with hip-hop are wiggers, what does that make Black kids down with hip-hop?)

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

I don't have no... I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boys.

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

I grew up with the Pack. When they released 'Vans,' it was a seeing-is-believing moment.

I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.

Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they don't want change, they don't like change. And I get that, that's cool. Luckily for me, I'm confident in myself as an artist where I can do what I want, and as long as I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.

I've been in the game for 30 years and I came to represent.

I've always been adventurous - my wife calls me 'the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter' - if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.