Lukas Forchhammer Quotes

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

I think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara.

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good music. I'm not trying to section myself off into just making hard-core rap music.

I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

I love 50 Cent. I know it sounds weird 'cause a lot of kids might not say that right now, but I definitely want to work with 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Coldplay: I want to work with different artists that are going to push my music to a new level. Not just in urban music.

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

I've been heavily, heavily tuned into the DJ Khaled album, 'Major Key,' which has some major, major plays on it, up and down the line.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyone likes Tupac.