Smokepurpp Quotes

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.

SoundCloud was my first break I guess. I got a little bit of a following.That whole bedroom producer genre was kind of kicking itself into gear, and SoundCloud was becoming more of a hub for producers at the time.

Soundcloud is the best thing that ever happened to me honestly.

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

I found Beam when he was 16 years old. He dropped his SoundCloud page onto my Facebook. 'I listened to it and was like, these tracks are actually dope.'

We uploaded 'Ocean Eyes' to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

I try to keep track of what the kids are doing on Soundcloud, and all the new guys coming up.

Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.

I'm embracing new technology to record my songs, and it's a wonderful way to interact with people who love Whitesnake and help spread the gospel of the 'Snake, and I'm having fun doing it.

I do love the music aspect of the Internet. The Internet made me.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.

I think the cool thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can literally put out music as soon and as frequently as you want to because of streaming services.

I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.

I was totally a Bandcamp person.

Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.

I started my whole career on Soundcloud and YouTube and was always looking for recourses to make music.

There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.

I don't really know the logistics of a Soundcloud rapper.

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.

I love Apple Music. I helped build Apple Music. It will always be a very, very big part of my life and part of the journey.

People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.