Takeoff Quotes

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'

Nike is obviously more sporty than Adidas. I always associate Adidas with Beastie Boys and Run-DMC.

Nowadays, everyone has a stylist - we were raw, wearing 8 ball jackets with kente hats and spandex. It's a quintessential look that everyone loved.

When I made 'Detroit vs. Everybody,' I knew. I knew this for Eminem.

I like Das Racist, and so should you.

When MC Hammer came out, I was wearing parachute pants and patent leather shoes and a high top fade with a blonde streak in it like Kwame.

I'm a fan of Adidas Originals. I love their Stan Smith collection.

I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

We kind of like the new Outkast.

The 80s was an outstanding era.

I think the fact that Gang Starr kept getting more and more successful was the reason we never thought about our age.

I have a rap group called Outlaw Posse.

I think at the end of the day the diversity has served as a major… that's what has determined the difference between The Roots and some of the other artists from our graduating class. I feel we followed the De La Soul, the Native Tongue blueprint.

I want to see the '70s guys, if they're gonna do something, stay valid in the '90s. Then they belong. If they're trapped in the '70s, then it's nostalgia. You're not getting me in those platform shoes again.

I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the only thing I remember coming from our big, warm stereo console. Even then, I knew Cash was uncool. I knew he was an unhip Republican.

When I was really young, I had an afro and wore pressed jeans and argyle sweaters. In my teens, I moved on to ripped Levi's jeans, white T-shirts, and cowboy boots.

I love Bad Bunny. He's changing the game. I think he's doing something very important with his success.

It's an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

In the early '90s, all the girl groups were dressing super feminine. And then we came on the scene wearing Cross Colours, Girbaud, and Nautica.

People used to think, because of our name, that we were a hip-hop group.

For 2NE1, it's always been all about music.

When we came out, they just labelled us 'ratchet music' cos we said 'ratchet' a lot. Ratchet means that's it's ghetto, but I would just call the music we're making just good music.

All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different styles that went along with the different influences in skateboarding, whether that be hip-hop or rock and roll and grunge. And that's what I was into, so I was following all that.