Kurtis Blow Quotes

I'm a big hip hop fan.

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'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.

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

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

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

You can never be too old for hip-hop.

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

I'm a fan of hip-hop as a whole, period. I love hip-hop. I look at it as a study and I love it.

I was born in Hip Hop. That's all I ever needed.

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. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

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.

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

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

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 love the hip-hop nation.

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.