Quotes About Hip-hop

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

The Lifted Crew, I think that they're a great band that plays great soul music. They may have studied a lot of soul, but really, their heart and soul is in hip-hop.

I grew up listening to a lot of rap music. My dad's a DJ from Brooklyn, and he's a very soulful guy, so he always spun a lot of hip-hop, and that's where I get a lot of my hip-hop influence.

My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It's dance meets hip-hop.

Of course, if you're gonna make a rap song, you're gonna want to sound like Melle Mel.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

Hip hop minus plugged sounds can be a very different experience.

Dance is merging with the more mainstream hip hop/R&B scene, and there will be new ideas and sounds.

I listen to a little bit of hip-hop, but I mainly go back to what was big when I was at the University of Georgia in the '70s. I'm a big Emerson, Lake & Palmer guy, a big Jackson Browne guy, the soundtrack of college.

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.

The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.

Mister Cee's a legend, man.

I want to try a feminine style but mix it up with sexy or hip-hop elements.

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'