Swizz Beatz Quotes

I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

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

My obsession with hip-hop has given me an addiction to trainers, which are very much a young person's game, and I am known to rock a full tracksuit, under the pretence that it's more comfortable to travel in.

My era was '90s Carhartt-and-Timberlands hip-hop. That's my rock n' roll.

I'm always going to be a hood chick. I like street clothes.

When hip-hop came along, men and women started dressing down as a form of rebellion.

I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

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.

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

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

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre.

I've got a lot of '70s vintage. I'm a huge vintage junkie.

I love hip-hop, but hip-hop is a way of life.

I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.