Virgil Abloh Quotes

I really like the whole urban, hip-hop kind of thing.

I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

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 didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

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

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

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

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.

Rap is definitely a youthful expression.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.

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.

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.