Mekhi Phifer Quotes

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

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

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

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

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

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

I really like the whole urban, hip-hop kind of thing.

Hip-hop is as much an attitude and perspective as it is a music form.

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

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

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

I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.

Hip-hop is not one thing!

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

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.

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

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

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.'

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