I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.
I find it fascinating how hip hop as a culture mirrors every mythology from the beginning of mythology. The concept of the single mother and child – the Madonna concept. Hip-hoppers were raised in that.
Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one’s true self.
Unlike the on-air talents in the NFL where they have producers figuratively joined at their hip, providing them with info and tidbits of data, we WWE announcers are responsible for getting ourselves ready for every broadcast.
In future, if I get a chance to perform, I will go for hip hop, locking and popping. Indian is definitely not for me.
I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I’m not going to say, ‘I’m only a drama filmmaker’ anymore.
To me, country music is like the blues, but it’s something very hip and – I don’t want to say commercial – but it’s very worldly and good listening.
I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.
It’s very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.
One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other… I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.
I don’t really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock ‘n roll. Rock ‘n roll has a romance to it – how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.
People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin’ in their lives.
I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas – because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
Dance has been a driving force in my life for 25 years. From music videos and hip hop, to jazz and musical theater, to ballet and classic modern dance, I have had extensive exposure to a variety of techniques that inspire my own electric style.
I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in ‘Just Kids.’
You know, my era of DJing was the 90s. I think that was one of the best eras of music, period. From dancehall to hip hop to rock to pop to R&B to everything. I just like that era of music, so I just listen to a lot of 90s overall but definitely 90s hip hop.
Hip hop is the way it is because of America.
I don’t understand why people make me want to make music that’s a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, ‘Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you’ or, ‘You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.’
There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I’m a huge fan of hip hop. It’s incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It’s a very deep art form.
My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There’s got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it’s one voice: we’re all in this together; we’re going to do this right.
I’m 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that’s it. I don’t think I’ll ever be hip again!
I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late ’80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He’s a very cool, hip guy. This film, let’s face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he’d find it funny.
Coconut oil mixed with olive oil is what I put on my body every day; I put rose hip oil on my face. If my hair feels dry, instead of going and buying something filled with chemicals, I put egg whites or avocados or mayonnaise in my hair. I leave it on there for an hour or two and I wash it out.
We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.
I do watch some kind of terrible shows on VH1, ‘Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,’ ‘Basketball Wives.’ Those are like my guilty pleasures. When I want to see some drama, I’ll watch those.
For years, I’ve felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don’t play basketball, I can’t dance, and I’d rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.
I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.
Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that’s not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.
To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there’s a very big scar. It looks better than it did… So I say, if you don’t like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you’re gonna do it – just go for it.
I think regardless of hip injury, surgery or whatnot, you’re having to evolve and change how you’re going about your day just as the years go by, so, yeah, I’ve changed the way I go about getting ready.
We were never hip, which is fine with me. We aren’t that interested in that whole situation. But all the times how we tried and failed to get across in our music, we actually succeeded on ‘Superstar Car Wash.’
Both hips have had a form of hip replacement.
Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and from their ancestry, Hip Hop represented a step toward rediscovering what it means to be a Black American, or to be a Latino American.
Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you’re not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it’s a ‘cool’ soreness. A badge of honor.
Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn’t understand the culture.
I’m realizing I’m not hip enough to know for sure what would be considered pop-culture.
Hip Hop is very addictive.
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that’s sexy.
Everyone’s hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks – and it’s much more accepted.
When people meet me, many times they’re very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I’m not.
When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.
I’m in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There’s a little strip that they’re gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it’s just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There’s no loitering in L.A., so I don’t know what to do with myself.
I shoot from the hip.
Just because you have a baby on your hip – or one on the way or two at home – doesn’t mean you can’t go after your dreams.
I was just a kid in love with hip hop music. I love music. I love the culture. I wanted to be a part of it in any way.
Country’s hip; it’s cool music.
Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.
Sometimes when I think you get fatigued, a little extra inflammation in the back and hip, it’s harder to move fast and you lose a little bit of bat speed.
After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I’ve cut right back on alcohol.
My dad raised me with some good advice: ‘Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you’ll never have enemies, because people will always know where you’re coming from.’
Everyone uses grime as a footstool, but imagine Biggie Smalls started doing hip hop, and it started going well, and then he started making RnB: there would be no hip hop!
I’m always the person who’s taking everyone else’s kid and putting them on my hip, so I’ve kinda always been a mama.
I ripped all the cartilage out of my hip in a water ski jumping accident. I am a bit accident prone.
So what I’m trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they’re doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they’re doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?
Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one’s authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is an attitude – even an aptitude.
