Mat Kearney Quotes

I feel like hip-hop inspires everything.

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.

I've always been totally enamored by hip-hop. I wouldn't say I liked it exclusively growing up. It was, like, that and alt-rock. But I always preferred it. It set a tone for everything I wanted to do in life.

Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.

I like to say hip-hop was born when I was in my mother's womb.

I'm a prime example of a person who loves hip-hop, and I will defend it till the day I die.

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.'

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.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

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

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen or twenty-one or wherever you're at, you get your lime when you get your lime, but if you're a part of hip hop and a child of hip hop, then you will always be a part of hip hop.

Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

Hip Hop emerged fearlessly and unappoligeticly reflecting our society.

Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.

I think I can pinpoint the moment that I realized that I enjoyed hip-hop music and it was the video game called Need For Speed Underground.