I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It's almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There's a wall above my fireplace reserved for it.
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.
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.
Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
Hip-hop was started on groups.
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.
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.
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.
I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.
Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
No, I can't do rap music!
Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.
Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down.
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.
I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.
When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.
I was born in Hip Hop. That's all I ever needed.
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.
Hip-hop is a vehicle.
I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.
