hip-hop

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTESANDHIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

London, London, London town,You can toughen up or get thrown around.

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it.

We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.

The human body is the best work of art.

A fit, healthy body__hat is the best fashion statement

Please, touch me, I pray.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.

Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.