Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

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

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

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

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

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.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

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.

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

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.

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

No, I can't do rap music!

We gotta keep our sound alive, that dark hip-hop.

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.

Hip-hop became the voice of rebellion and the youth, as rock music did in the '60s.

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.