I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I was very happy about. And that's when I met this agent, who told me I had to lose 10 pounds. I said, 'You've got to be kidding me. I finally got it on - I'm not losing it!'
Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.
In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful. . .
My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.
God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. "It took you long enough," she said gently. "What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power. " "Meaning?" "That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now. " He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach.
I know nothing about hip-hop. . . There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.
Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.
Vishous screamed. The only thing that was louder was the pop as the hip was relocated, as it were. And the last thing he saw before he checked out of the Conscious Inn & Suites was Jane's head whipping around in a panic. In her eyes was stark terror, as if the single worst thing that she could imagine was him in agony. . . And that was when he knew that he still loved her.
I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip.
She's a big-hearted girl with hips to match.
Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.
Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.
I wanna be selective. . . very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.
We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death.
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.
I came to a point where I couldn't walk into an urban store and find anything I liked. Everything was just getting too baggy, everything was getting so over [priced]. It's as if what I wanted in street wear was nowhere in stores, with no disrespect to any hip-hop brands.
I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.