Jack Antonoff Quotes

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.

Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world.

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

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

In my opinion, hip-hop has a lot to do with rock and roll, because at one point it was considered an alternative - edgy, independent. Hip-hop is pots and pans the way that punk is garage. You make something out of nothing.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

All rappers are princesses like me.

You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen or twenty-one or wherever you're at, you get your lime when you get your lime, but if you're a part of hip hop and a child of hip hop, then you will always be a part of hip hop.

Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.