We’ve just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.
After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
When you’re on tour and you’re more or less attached to the hip with people, you’re sharing a bus, you’re next to one another at all times, for me it’s important to find my own space even it’s for an hour of the day just to reset.
Oh, hip hop is always changing.
Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
Hip hop classes and ballet are what I’ve been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.
To show a different side on ‘Love & Hip Hop’ and bring some validity to it and not just be ratchet, messy or whatever the case may be, it was cool to be that guy, not just from a fan standpoint but an artist standpoint.
I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.
I look at myself and pick out the things I don’t like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn’t with her.
I listen to both, but more grime before matches to get you kind of pumped up. But then I might switch to the U.S. hip hop to just vibe out.
The part of modern pop music I don’t know much about is hip hop.
I love Bruce Springsteen’s writing, but I grew up on ’90s hip hop, like Tribe Called Quest.
I had been pulling my groins in college a lot and missed my whole freshman year of college because of groin pulls. It was chronic, and I couldn’t figure it out. I went to the doctor, and he told me I had hip dysplasia. So I knew my hockey days were sorta limited at that point.
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn’t be considered hip.
Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
By the time I’m 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I’m a bionic man. I think that’s just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.
A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
In hip hop, ‘real’ has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a time, if a rapper spoke about being gangsta, they needed to truly be that, or they were ‘frontin.’
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they’re not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.
I know more about ‘Moana’ and ‘Coco’ these days than I do about anything hip and cool like ‘Black Mirror’.
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
I like jazz, rock n’ roll, some hip hop – I can’t think of any music I don’t like.
West Coast hip hop was the sound of my neighbourhood. It was something I could relate to because it had a sound that felt like my surroundings – almost more so than what they were saying. That music was made to be bumped in a Cadillac!
We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We’re all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.
By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop’s critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.
My main inspirations come from early ’90s Trance, the French electro movement round ’06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I’d say it’s some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It’s chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.
The day that I ever become hip… please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
For me, the hip word is ‘mutate.’ We’re ripening all the time.
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four – ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop – so it’s a huge part of my life and my music.
When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.
I’m a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to ’83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading.
Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I’ve always loved the Mediterranean flavors.
I can’t look hip, but I don’t want to be hip.
Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen or twenty-one or wherever you’re at, you get your lime when you get your lime, but if you’re a part of hip hop and a child of hip hop, then you will always be a part of hip hop.
I like to shoot from the hip.
That’s where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I’ve failed: They’ve actually convinced college kids that they’re listening to hip music – but it’s just blues twisted a new way – while I’m playing for the college kid’s parents.
Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.
We listen to a lot of hip hop. They’re the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it’s really turned to hip hop, and they’re doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.
I went through three surgeries on my hip and knees.
There are a lot of singers, but they weren’t doing it the way I was, taking an Adele song and putting a hip hop beat behind it to make it a different song.
But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It’s a medium that everyone wants to be connected with – it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
It’s almost as if people think that in Latin America we’re not hip to what’s happening here.
It’s almost hip to, you know, be from Brooklyn or to live in Brooklyn.
It seems kosher and OK to treat women as objects because the business of cinema is about images and when you have fragmented images of a woman’s bosom and her swiveling hip and her twisting navel, it robs the woman of all autonomy and subjects her to the male gaze.
I can always tell the demographic that will probably recognize me – white dudes, sort of skater-y hip hop white dudes, and working class black dudes.
Like most people in radio – and in magic – I’m not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
I’ve been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.
Hip hop has always been braggin’ and boasting and ‘I’m better at you than this’ and ‘I’m better at you than that.’
I’m a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that’s taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.
I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.
I really just like acting. I’m not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it’s an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
I do heavy weight deadlift squats, shoulder presses, push-ups, and I can pull up my own body weight. And I do an ab workout just about every night. It’s 200 reps of five different exercises four times right before bed: a plank with hip twists, side bridge dips, a walking mountain climber, bicycles and leg lift.
