Ann Powers Quotes

I am Mr. 'Toot it and Boot It.'

Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

Kanye on the track and LeBron. That's fire.

Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.

I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.

When I came in the game, it was just me making beats in Inglewood at YG's house; it wasn't nobody to help me.

Everybody wants to be a rapper - even country musicians.

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

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.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

I would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.' I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.

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.