Rick Rubin Quotes

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response.

Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all.

I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.

My mom was a big UGK fan.

A lot people don't know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He'd be silly, too, when he raps.

Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.'

The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

I grew up listening to the Hot Boys, with Lil Wayne and all those guys.

We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boyz.

When I came up, one of my favorite groups and producers was Three 6 Mafia.

The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.

Yeah, I got a lot of inspiration from Three 6 as far as my sound.

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

I like Future, Young Thug, Mike WiLL, DJ Spinz, Metro Boomin, Drake, Kendrick.

I love playing Rick Ross' 'Port of Miami' album. Jeezy's 'Thug Motivation 101' is a classic in my opinion, and I still listen to that album to this day. I'm a big fan of OutKast, so pretty much any album they put out is great in my opinion, but I find myself listening to 'Aquemini' a lot. Anything Kendrick Lamar does is great.

Bounce is a primarily call-and-response style of hip-hop over a 'Trigger Man' beat. It's a New Orleans-created hip-hop style that developed in the late '80s, early '90s.

I grew up on N.W.A., Geto Boys. My dad was listening to that.