Crew Quote by Katy Perry

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.

— Ichiro Suzuki

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

— Rose Byrne

I was a rapper. Like every black kid I was attracted to rapping. I wanted to be like L.L. Cool J and those guys.…

— Al B. Sure

I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy's and Steel Pole…

— Bonobo

I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot…

— Karen Civil

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations…

— John Oates

We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging…

— Bootsy Collins

I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad…

— Estelle

I was the drummer hiding behind the cymbals. By the time fame came along, I'd worked in the business for a decade, then suddenly,…

— David Essex

The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era. The beginning…

— Jess Row

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

— Moshe Kasher