The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

PRACTICE MAKES THE HARD THINGS EASY.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

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.

We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.