Affinity Quote by Doug E. Fresh

I was in high school and college as hip-hop was really sort of coming into its own as a, you know, creative force, as…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into…

— Simon de Pury

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

— Moshe Kasher

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of…

— James Vincent McMorrow

The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started…

— Kendrick Lamar

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and…

— G-Eazy

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block…

— Mary J. Blige

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

— Lupe Fiasco

I'm definitely a little surprised at what hip-hop was able to do to my life.

— Fabolous

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that…

— Ryan Lewis