Quotes About Hip-hop

I was just a kid in love with hip hop music. I love music. I love the culture. I wanted to be a part of it in any way.

When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.

When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I was DJing parties in high school.

I was a fan of DMC but I was captivated by Run's style, I wanted to be the man. As a kid, when somebody got that kinda influence over a child... you know how strong that can be.

I didn't invent the word 'hyphy' and I'm not trying to say I'm the king of hyphy.

I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.

I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.

Def Jam is an iconic label.

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.

I remember when Kriss Kross came out! I was round about the same age, or maybe a couple of years younger.

The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That's all it's about.

Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience.

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

I love 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' because it's a real kids' show. There hasn't been a real kids' show since 'Dora the Explorer.' It mixes hip-hop with being a kid. Hip-hop came from youths anyway. It's just a great, funky show.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

Hip-hop certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to hold onto it.

I've been a fan of grime for a while - I used to watch the battles on YouTube when I was younger.

I watch a lot of the YouTube battles: Goodz, Loaded Lux, I'm into stuff like that.

I came into the game under the guys,' she recalled. 'There was Trick Daddy and Rick Ross. I came in thinking like a guy. I came in tough like a guy. I came in just ready like a guy.