Juicy J Quotes

Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

I would love to collaborate with Chance the Rapper. I love his lyrics and his sound and everything.

I enjoy independent music, even more than Bollywood.

I never identified with 'indie,' I don't like that word.

I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.

My music isn't mainstream music.

I never wrote music for the mainstream.

Die Antwoord is super pop. It's a pop music.

There is a pop element to what I do, but I'm going for a deeper, more left-of-center vibe. That's the sound I've always been looking for.

I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.

I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.

Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.

Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

I would definitely say I'm a country girl at heart; I wanted to make sure that I established my music first at Country just because that is the artist that I am. But it wanted to spill over into pop too, which I don't have a problem with at all and I think is awesome because it spreads it to a broader audience of people.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

Our music is weird. It's not pop. I don't know why so many people buy our records.

I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'