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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

— Abbie Cornish

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

— Gnash

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

— Estelle

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.

— Diplo

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

— Alex Ebert

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

— Flo Rida

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

— Mary J. Blige

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

— Doug E. Fresh

I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

— Mike Posner

✗Opposing Perspectives

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

— Ryan Lewis

I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life.

— Pauly D