Stefflon Don Quotes

The songs that are on my playlist find themselves there because I can identify with the lyrics, or they have some magical transformative power in the beat.

It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music I want to make.

I love folk. I love rap.

I'm a really new artist here. I would say that my style is an artist who can dance and sing. That's why my album is really upbeat. Maybe we will try slowly to do ballads or middle tempo songs.

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost.

I just love ballads. I am obsessed with them, so I've written a lot of those. They just kind of touch on all the different types of emotions. Though, I think poppy, feel - good songs are underrated and not seen as artistic enough.

The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation.

I try to make music, all kinds of music, whether it be singing or rapping.

My first album was very eclectic and very soft as a vocal expression.

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.

When it comes down to it, it's all about good music and what makes people react. That wins over everything else.

From the beginning with 'So Far Gone,' Drake's work has been to find a way to deftly balance his singing and his rapping.

I've liked country music for as long as I can remember, especially the songs of Dolly Parton. Her lyrics are similar to mine: simple, expressive, from the heart. Our voices are in the same kind of register, too.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.

I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

The best music to dance to is my music! Haha! I say anything that speaks to you. I personally enjoy dancing to hip-hop, R&B music, EDM/trap music.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.