The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
The same day I was supposed to go to college, I ended up hitting the studio and then poppin' out on the block after that.
Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything
If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.
I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I'm saying hip-hop, not rap. That's what saved my life. I carry that badge with a lot of pride and honor, and I really enjoy trying to raise the perception and the bar of what we do.
If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American.
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff
I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.
Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.
Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.
You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.
I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.
I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.
I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.
To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
I don't like to be considered a 'hip-hop mogul.' I don't know what that means.
The Temple of Hip-Hop makes sure that we don't just approach hip-hop just through music or through rap. We approach the totality of hip-hop.
I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.
[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.
You gotta understand a lot of hip-hop kids are going to have the hip-hop mentality. And it's sad because they're not educated enough to understand what hip-hop culture is really about.
I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'
Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?
