By kipping, you are able to generate power from the hip, transfer it through the body, then into your arms, creating a movement that originates in your core and moves to your limbs, and also generates more power.
We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I’m about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.
I love ‘Real Housewives.’ I love ‘Love & Hip Hop.’ I love HGTV. I love a good Guy Fieri marathon on Food Network. I like comfort TV.
I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the ’60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y’know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there.
I’m really influenced by ’90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.
I tried a Les Paul when I was a lot younger. I tried the Les Paul, and because of the weight of the thing, it nearly dislocated my hip.
Eminem is a major star. Em and JAY-Z have achieved things that I have never came close to achieving in my life. They are both major stars in Hip Hop. And to top it off, they are both very lyrical.
In every interview I’ve got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It’s gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I’m as critical about music as everybody else is.
When you say rap or Hip Hop, people expect it to be just urban or black. And I don’t really feel like you should really put a face on it.
It’s important to love in hip hop.
As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.
I’m a better artist and I’m a better person because I’m wiser, and stronger and I know who’s hip for me and who ain’t.
If you’re a kid who’s not necessarily attractive, and you don’t have money, and you’re not hip and cool, chances are you’re not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.
Maybe you don’t work for seven months a year, but you’ll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.
I love pop music… some hip hop… not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was my first concert I went to. I love her.
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
Ultimately with our band, it’s word of mouth. It seems to be the largest cause of The Hip outbreak – if we can align ourselves with a virus.
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I’m crazy for that man. And he thinks I’m hip!
It’s not about being super famous. My first goal was to do what I’m passionate about – dance, hip hop, and R&B – but I also wanted to support my family and friends and create opportunities for me and people I believe in. It makes everything I do meaningful.
I could totally see myself limping down the aisle when I’m 60, jumping off the top rope and breaking my hip. I could be a hilarious geriatric wrestler.
I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.
I think if you’re too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can’t really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
I love hip hop. It’s such an appendage for me. It’s something that’s always shaped my experience out in the world.
The day I set foot in Hyderabad, I saw an animal being hit by a vehicle. The city did not have a shelter for the bleeding animal, and I brought it home. In less than a month, our house was home to all kinds of animals – a buffalo with a broken hip, a blind mongoose, goats, dogs, cats.
We didn’t gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
Kids haven’t changed since my day except they are more hip.
I love hip hop music and would do anything to help the culture blow up in China because it’s been so underground. I just want people know how good this culture is, how good the music is, and how it can change your life.
As far as hip hop, I ain’t even gonna front, it was ‘Rapper’s Delight.’ That was the first thing I heard where I was like, ‘Whoa.’ You take that beat and do something over it. I started collecting records after that, old records.
Hate is indeed self-destructive, and this is what real Hip Hop must avoid at all cost.
Ballet requires movements which are very unnatural. With every step, you do a circular movement of the hip. You turn out from the hip and make your knees point out to the side instead of forward.
As we continue our fight to advance civil rights and racial justice, we need to not only recognize but celebrate how Hip Hop and Black Americans have given so much to our culture and our country.
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
I think I’m like the kid who loved hip hop, and all of a sudden – I don’t know what it was – it started to put me in positions to do great things.
Hip hop helped me learn about a whole bunch of American culture.
I’ve been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, ‘I want to be a rapper.’ But I’m a white girl, not going to be a rapper.
Love & Hip Hop’ is like the Super Bowl of reality TV.
I’m becoming hip to my children because bands of their generation name us as influences, so you can definitely hear it, the same way as we were influenced by other people.
If I’m hip, we’ve got a problem in this country. I really shouldn’t be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I’m sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There’s a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.
At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.
I don’t know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.
I know that everyone has their own ideas about what the good life is, and hip hop has especially strong ideas about it. It’s been the same old thing for years and years: a bunch of females around you, nice cars and money. I wanted people to know what the good life actually is and challenge a lot of the lies that we’re told.
Wu-Tang has opened many doors for hip hop.
I think the only bones I haven’t broken are my shoulder, hip, and thigh.
Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you’re in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing… you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.
My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.
DJ Envy’s definitely talk about me, but I’m one of many. I was under the assumption that he had kids but wasn’t actually married. I found out around the time that I started filming ‘Love & Hip Hop.’ After I found out, I was still in shock because we were together for so long.
I think that ‘Family Guy’ is hysterical. It’s edgy and hip – and they can do whatever they want to do because it’s animated and they’re not limited by budget.
I will make breast implants passe and butt implants hip and chic.
As long as I’m around the cats in the hip hop scene, they’ll throw me a track and I’ll write a rap over it.
I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The ‘Def Jam Poetry’ on HBO is just so sick to me.
In my childhood, I was very fond of western music and dance forms like Hip Hop, Salsa, Tango, etc.
I’m like old shoes. I’ve never been hip. I think the reason I’m still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.
I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I’m getting used to the medication.
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
It doesn’t mean that I won’t be sexy or hip or anything like that.
I’m so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn’t get credit and success when I’m working to get it – for me and for others, too.
There was once a time when I was the hip necklace wearing guy.
I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that’s not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren’t really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.
I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I’m horrible in ballet. I tried.
The Sadies have toured with the Hip probably more than any other band. I got to know them pretty well and loved their sets.
I’m a comedian, for God’s sake. Viewers shouldn’t trust me. And you know what? They’re hip enough to know they shouldn’t trust me. I’m just doing stand-up comedy.
