Riz Ahmed Quotes

Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it.

Pop culture mirrors culture, and, I think, as a rapper, hip-hop in a lot of ways mirrors the things that are happening in urban neighborhoods.

People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one's ever talked in misogyny in grime. That's often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.

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

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

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

Glizzy Gang is a real movement. They had movements back when I was younger, in the '90s, but you don't really have a major movement in the 2000s.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

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

Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away.

I think the grime scene is one of the sickest, most diverse scenes ever.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on the street, the idea of using a turntable as an instrument, singing vividly about reality instead of typical love songs, and its links to graffiti and dance.

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.

Rap is supposed to scare soccer moms.

We grew up on hip-hop, metal, and hard core, which... reflect a certain amount of the chaos and confusion that are part of daily life.

I feel like I have a lot of rhythm because I'm from the DMV. Because you got so many different types of music: Baltimore Club music, Go-Go, then you got the DMV rap music scene, then you got the DMV R&B music scene. It's a lot of music and it's a lot of taste that caters to most.

I feel that in the underground world, there's not enough vocals out there.

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

I love rap, and I love the angst of hardcore music and punk rock.