Chris Frantz Quotes

Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

I used to go to those dance circles when I was a kid. When break dancing was first popular in the '80s. I would be in Boston, or I'd head up to New York, and I would stand in those circles, and I would just be blown away.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

I was a street dancer.

With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.

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

I'm a b-boy for life. I'm a dancer, I started with free style dancing and b-boying during the '80s and I always said to myself that when I get the chance to do my own thing, I will always have the b-boy element and the dance element because that's where I come from.

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

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

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.

My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

I love the hip-hop nation.

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.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

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

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

I grew up hip-hop dancing; I've always wanted to create music that I could dance to.

You can never be too old for hip-hop.

We grew up with break-dancing and MCing, the old school, that whole era of just having a good time and knowing that the music was good.

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of something really exciting. I was a part of it as a consumer.

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

Street dance resonates for teenagers. It's inclusive and brings in different audiences.