Phife Dawg Quotes

Dr. Dre I've always been a huge fan of. The Roots as well. The Roots gave me an appreciation for live music.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the U.K. hip hop scene.

I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients. I love hip hop.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

I'm a producer and not a rapper. So I can make any style of music I want. I can make an EDM beat. I can put an EDM track out one day and I can put a grungy hip-hop track out the next day, like, it doesn't matter.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

I have a hip-hop podcast and get to meet all these rappers I love, so I feel very lucky.

I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.

I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.

The point of '777' is for the world to hear adult Key. Your favorite new rapper's favorite rapper, grown up. My job was to lay any canvas he needed at any given moment.

A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write.

Lyrically and melodically, Drake was definitely a big influence of mine.

Having some decent musicians around you only expands what you can do production-wise, but I make rap - I can't really see myself doing much else.

That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self.

I looked up to Too Short before I was making my own music.

Gang Starr was like the blueprint of my career.

My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.

I love being in the Beastie Boys.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud of the fact that we had three different singers singing individually from different points of view, like the Dead.