Mayer Hawthorne Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Hip Hop, Crowds, Hips

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

• I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Soul

• I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Kids, Rocks, 80s And 90s

• I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Song, Rap, Writing

• I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Hip Hop, Hips, Lanes

  "A Q&A with Mayer Hawthorne". Interview with John Macdonald, www.spin.com. October 20, 2010.

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