Skepta Quotes

Hip-hop is always what's the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get that stamp of approval and be down.

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'

Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you wear your clothes, the items that you consume, all came with the music as an art form. And those things helped transform how people buy, shop, speak, engage.

To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every phase went through changing up their dress styles and all that, but since Run DMC came out, it's been baggy jeans.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know all their stuff.

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.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

When I was sitting at home watching 'Yo! MTV Raps' as a kid, seeing the bright jackets excited me.

When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

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

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like the slang. They like how we dress. They listen to the music. It's everything.

Fashion has always been influenced by hip-hop.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

Just because Lil Wayne made it cool don't mean that I'm a start wearin' the small pants or I'm gonna start doin' the dance songs.

I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang's 'C.R.E.A.M.' Before that, I didn't know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.

I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'