Shinichiro Watanabe Quotes

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

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

Hip Hop emerged fearlessly and unappoligeticly reflecting our society.

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

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

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

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

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

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

I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.

Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen or twenty-one or wherever you're at, you get your lime when you get your lime, but if you're a part of hip hop and a child of hip hop, then you will always be a part of hip hop.

Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

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.

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

I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.