B-Boying Quotes

I'm a b-boy for life. I'm a dancer, I started with free style dancing and b-boying during the '80s and I always said to myself that when I get the chance to do my own thing, I will always have the b-boy element and the dance element because that's where I come from.

I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

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

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

I Bust-A-Move! Old-school style too: like, I'll bust a Robot out in a second.

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

I love the hip-hop nation.

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.

Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

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 grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

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

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

Hip-hop is a contact sport.

I grew up in the '80s, when breaking was cool, and then it got corny in the '90s, and it became cool again with all these choreographed B-Boy dance crews.

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

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.

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 got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

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

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.