Engineers Quote by Questlove

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

— Ichiro Suzuki

I think I'm like the kid who loved hip hop, and all of a sudden - I don't know what it was - it…

— Angie Martinez

Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff,…

— Joell Ortiz

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that -…

— Karen Civil

I love hip-hop, so what I do is done with respect, but there was a very closed-minded attitude toward live instruments and music that…

— Everlast

I grew up listening to everything outside hip-hop. Hip-hop came later in my life.

— Akon

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

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

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New…

— Michael Rapaport

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

— Estelle

As a halfway decent college DJ, I had been exposed to some great progressive stuff and always took pride in unearthing musical gems.

— Mick Foley