Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.
I really like hip-hop and rap; that's my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.
Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.
I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.
I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.
By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.
Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.
Some of the greatest hip-hop artists have incorporated elements from electronic shows into their setup. People are taking notice. It's going to be a new wave.
I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated.
I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.
So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.
I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight.
I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.
I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.