Archie Shepp Quotes

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

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

Hip-hop was started on groups.

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

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.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

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.

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

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

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

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

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

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

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

Rap was my drug.

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

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.

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

When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.