Flo Rida Quotes

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response.

Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.

Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.

Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.

My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

I have to give credit to my mum for my music taste. She's white and Welsh but she listens to dancehall, reggae, Reggaeton.'

When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.

I think there's definitely a dance album or at least single in me somewhere. I would want to work with a really cool Ibiza DJ, though.

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

My parents are from Jamaica, and I love reggae music.

I like to dance to Latin music, like salsa, like reggaeton.

As soon as I heard 'Calypso,' I loved it.

A crunk attitude you're just rowdy, rahhhhh! You're just crunk. But you add the crunk rock to it, and it gives you some edge.

My music is designed to make a club go insane when it goes on.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

So Am I' is sonically like similar to 'Psycho' and energy-wise.

Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.

Drake gets you bouncin'!

I rap and I sing, so then you've got a bit of hip-hop in there. I'm Jamaican, so you got a bit of dancehall. And I'm from London, so there's a bit of London things in there... And at sometimes, it's a little bit Afrobeat.