Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.
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.
Oh, hip hop is always changing.
I'm an urban act.
I learned to MC over drum 'n' bass music.
There was no hip-hop before Afrika Bambaataa.
Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
I'm here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop.
Hip-hop was started on groups.
I was not an athlete, but I was a break-dancer. I was a beatboxer, an entertainer.
Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.
I'm a b-boy for life. I'm a dancer, I started with free style dancing and b-boying during the '80s and I always said to myself that when I get the chance to do my own thing, I will always have the b-boy element and the dance element because that's where I come from.
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.
I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.
I would have to be traditional and say that my favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.
Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.
Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.
When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.
No, I can't do rap music!
When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down.
