Mekhi Phifer Quotes

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.

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.

Hip-hop is a contact sport.

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

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.

I love the hip-hop nation.

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.

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.

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

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.

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.

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

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

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.

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

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

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.

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.