The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.
Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.
God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.
Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.
I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.
And this is the only sound you should fear, man these kids wear crowns over here and everything is alright
Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker
So sucker MC's, please think twice; Would you join the navy if you didn't like the gravy and rice?
Ladies love me, girls adore me I mean even the ones who never saw me
I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?
Tough like a Ukulele.
We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We could make the same case about the church and our government. But hip-hop, like society, isn't one dimensional.
I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.
I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal
I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.
So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.
Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.
