hip-hop

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.

I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way to move to something.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

This guy! I plead the fifth. This guy is nuts._- Eminem__ope questions, man. Very insightful, very thoughtful._- Guru (Gang Starr)__ou like a Psychiatrist or some shit? This shit is just coming out but go ahead._- Mary J. Blige__efinitely a real interview! Digging deep up in there, man. Not afraid to ask questions!_- K-Ci Hailey (Jodeci)__he Wizard asked me for a copy of your magazine._- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk)__ou didn__ wear your glasses and you haven__ carried your hearing aid. What else is wrong with you?_- Bushwick Bill__eace and blessing, Brother Harris. Thank you for inspiring my words. Keep __o balance._- Erykah Badu__an I see that pen?_- Bobby Brown__hat else do you want to know? Talk to me._- Aaliyah

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

I know one thing for sho Heaven__ gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ___ a pad.