I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another...
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.
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.
I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.
If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.
I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
