AJ Tracey Quotes

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.

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

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!

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

Hip-hop is not one thing!

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

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

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.

Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.

Rap was my drug.

I am hip-hop!

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

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

Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'

Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music.

Hip-hop was started on groups.

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and it was quite personal.

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