Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

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.

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

Hip-hop is as much an attitude and perspective as it is a music form.

When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.

I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

Hip-hop was started on groups.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Rap is definitely a youthful expression.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

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 is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.

Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.

Hip-hop became the voice of rebellion and the youth, as rock music did in the '60s.

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'

I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.