JPEGMAFIA Quotes

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.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

When I was a kid, my favorite rapper was 50 Cent. He was definitely a big influence on why I wanted to do music.

A lot of people in my generation, we use hip-hop as a tool to compose.

When I started making beats in the 7th grade - even through middle school and high school - I admired a lot of Shawty Redd, stuff like that, that real dark, trap sound.

I wanted to be a great producer so I studied great hip-hop producers, but also stuff beyond that: Phil Spector, David Axelrod, Gamble and Huff. They're equally as influential to me as Dilla, Premier, and Pete Rock.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

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.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

My friends put me on to Mobb Deep when I was a little kid. I've always been a big fan.

Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he came on his verses every time.

With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It's how I fell in love with music.

I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire.

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

I'm the best SoundCloud rapper.

I would say Tupac influenced me the most to start rapping, but as far as a female icon that I've looked up to since I was six or seven is definitely Gwen Stefani.

Nas was a huge influence. That's probably my favorite rapper of all time.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan.