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

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

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

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

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

Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

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 love the hip-hop nation.

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

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.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

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.'

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

I am hip-hop!

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

I love hip-hop, but hip-hop is a way of life.

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