Rag'n'Bone Man Quotes

I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

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

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

I was rapping at eight.

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.

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.

Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s in London, you start seeing the explosion of drum'n'bass and then the birth of U.K. garage and grime. I decided to focus a lot of my energies as an aspiring MC. It was a very natural way to express yourself as a kid from a certain kind of neighborhood.

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.

I grew up in south London, and I remember watching the scene pop off in East and think, 'Ahhhh, I would love to be in Bow E3 right now spitting wid Wiley and Dizzee.'

The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

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

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'

I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.