Abbie Cornish Quotes

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

I learned to MC over drum 'n' bass music.

I was in high school and college as hip-hop was really sort of coming into its own as a, you know, creative force, as a sort of cultural voice. And it really spoke to me.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

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.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.

I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.

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.

I'm definitely not making fun of hip-hop.

Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.

I'm a fan of hip-hop as well. I like everybody who keeps the game on their toes and keep it pushing.

I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'