Eric San Quotes

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

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

I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

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.

I am hip-hop!

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

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

The TekLife crew are super dope.

The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'

I made my first mixtape when I was 11.

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

I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

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.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

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

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

I love the hip-hop nation.

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

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

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

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.