Doug E. Fresh Quotes

I like hip-hop music.

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

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

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

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

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

Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.

Hip-hop music was our life.

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

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

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

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

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

I am hip-hop!

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.

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.