Rza Quotes

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

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

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'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.

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.

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

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

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.

I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.

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

No, I can't do rap music!

Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's always been there.

Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top and everything.

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

Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.

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

I'm a prime example of a person who loves hip-hop, and I will defend it till the day I die.