Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.
I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know all their stuff.
I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.
I'm born and raised in Georgia, so I have a lot of appreciation for hip-hop, but I want to be able to show the emotional side of me.
I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.
I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.
To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.
When I'm really purring it, I feel as if my whole left side - from knee to hip to shoulder - is turning behind me as I swing through the ball.
From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
He hissed and rocked his hips into her. “You like to bite?” “I’m a cat, aren’t I?
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
