Tech N9ne Quotes

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

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

I've known about hip-hop for a long time. The first time it intrigued me was when I saw this music video by Tyga on television. I was intrigued by the whole aesthetic. It was very unique.

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

I'm a big hip hop fan.

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

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.

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

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.

I'm a fan of hip-hop as a whole, period. I love hip-hop. I look at it as a study and I love it.

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

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.

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

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.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'