Archie Shepp Quotes

Rap is definitely a youthful expression.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

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

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

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

I'm a hip-hop fan.

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 was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.

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

Hip-hop music was our life.

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.'

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of something really exciting. I was a part of it as a consumer.

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

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

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

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

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

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

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.