Queen Latifah Quotes

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

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

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

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

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

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

You can never be too old for hip-hop.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

We grew up with break-dancing and MCing, the old school, that whole era of just having a good time and knowing that the music was good.

I used to go to those dance circles when I was a kid. When break dancing was first popular in the '80s. I would be in Boston, or I'd head up to New York, and I would stand in those circles, and I would just be blown away.

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

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

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 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.

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

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

I'm a big hip hop fan.

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

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

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.