Tom Felton Quotes

I was making grime before anyone else.

I think the grime scene is one of the sickest, most diverse scenes ever.

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

I grew up in south London, and I remember watching the scene pop off in East and think, 'Ahhhh, I would love to be in Bow E3 right now spitting wid Wiley and Dizzee.'

I feel that in the underground world, there's not enough vocals out there.

Grime's always been big at festivals. Grime's always had an underground crew.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Rap is definitely a youthful expression.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.