Dizzee Rascal Quotes

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.

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

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.

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

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

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

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

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.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

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

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

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

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

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.

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.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

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 was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

I am hip-hop!

I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.