Kurtis Blow Quotes

I am hip-hop!

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.

Wreckin' Cru was a DJ crew. They used to call it that because it was the guys that came in after the party was over and broke down the equipment. We eventually made a record, and we had the costumes on and what have you. Back then, everybody had their little getups, you know, like SoulSonic Force, UTFO.

I love hip-hop, but hip-hop is a way of life.

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

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

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

Hip-hop music was our life.

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

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

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the clubs, I made hip-hop that was made for MCs to eat the mic up. It was an aggressive form of hip-hop. It was made just for hip-hop. It's not made to sing or dance to, though you can if you want.

I grew up in a household listening to hip-hop music.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

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

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 went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

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.

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.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.