Stormzy Quotes

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.

Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s in London, you start seeing the explosion of drum'n'bass and then the birth of U.K. garage and grime. I decided to focus a lot of my energies as an aspiring MC. It was a very natural way to express yourself as a kid from a certain kind of neighborhood.

NWA was all-American; Wu-Tang was all-American. It was just a part of America you may not have seen at the time.

I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.

Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up in their homes.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

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.

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Hip Hop emerged fearlessly and unappoligeticly reflecting our society.

I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.

I really like the whole urban, hip-hop kind of thing.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

Hip-hop is as much an attitude and perspective as it is a music form.

When I wrote for Eazy, I wrote for the character. Everybody knew Eazy loved girls, so I would make him funny, even though it was somewhat misogynistic.

I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on the street, the idea of using a turntable as an instrument, singing vividly about reality instead of typical love songs, and its links to graffiti and dance.

My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.

Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster.