Syd Quotes

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

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

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.

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

Any time I get a chance to work with artists that make me inspired and learn new stuff about music - every chance I get, I'll take.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

Lil Wayne is doing his thing, and so is Drake.

I've done a couple of tunes with Kaytranada. 'Got It Good' has had such a great response.

I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I still have a lot of love for hip-hop, so I want to do more collaborations in that sense.

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.

Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'

I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.

Everybody wants to be a rapper - even country musicians.

I'm still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don't even know if I'm making hip hop anymore.

I've worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop Dogg ... right across to working with pop stars like Justin Timberlake. Why those artists came to me is because they wanted my sound.

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.