Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

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

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.

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.

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

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.

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

Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they're geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld the two, then you open the world up to, I think, communities that will just take to each other.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

I'm a huge comic book fan - me and the kids.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

Now all my niggas gettin buck Overbite

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.

Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

I think every generation has that movement of hip-hop that you know you're playing it and you definitely have that moment of like, "Why am I saying this so enthusiastically? Why am I so stoked and psyched to say these lyrics?"

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn the pages, fold 'em up, roll 'em up, stick 'em in their back pocket, show 'em to a friend, and say, "Hey, look at this."

The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes.