Toni Braxton Quotes

My hip-hop fans are a little spoiled - they want a particular level of lyricism and energy that I'm known for. When they don't get that, it takes a little time for them to open up to it. But electronic fans are as free as the music. On social media, they were so excited and loud; they're in awe.

I look at some of my fans at my show, and a lot of them look like they're straight out of a punk rock show. They like what I'm coming across with. I had seen them same thing when I went to this Scarface show, so it lets me know that I'm on the right track.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

My music isn't rappity-rap-rap-rap.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.'

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

I love folk. I love rap.

Country music has room for a little bit of everything.

I want to keep the same kinda vibe where we've got the dance element and hip-hop. I'm going to be singing a lot more, and I want to write more heartfelt songs.

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

I don't want to be known for only making ratchet music.

I do very versatile music.

The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and stuff like that. One day at school my friends were freestyling at the lunch table and thats where it all started.

I'm a fan of some of the hyphy stuff. Hyphy has been going on a lot longer than the press has been recognizing it.

I am a huge Eminem fan and find it flattering that he would rap about me. Personally, I'm honored.

I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.

As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.