18 quotes found
“Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.”
“You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.”
“Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.”
“London, London, London town,You can toughen up or get thrown around.”
“A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.”
“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”
“In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief”
“Maybe I write because Ive learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.”
“As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic grounds but on social judgement, biases, and stereotypes t...”
“This one is for our crew, but its also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.”
“I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.”
“I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a wa...”
“Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.”
“Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.”
“This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.”
