Zaytoven Quotes

The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.

I've been hugely inspired by Khalid, XXX, Post Malone, and The Weekend. That's the kind of sound that has really inspired me.

My Spotify consists of... definitely Juice WRLD. Comethazine. Ty$.

My genre of music is called Afro-Fusion because I fuse different types of music into a ball.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard that Kendrick was a fan of my music. Hopefully there's a door open for us to do music together. He's one of my favorite artists. I love Jazmine Sullivan, Lianne la Havas, Usher, Ginuwine. It goes further than classic soul.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It's soulful, it's pop. It's a sound that relates to everyone.

Our records have always been diversified - a bit of R&B, pop, dance.

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

I'm helping country sound a little more country.

I pursue what I think is the most trendy music at the moment.

Trap is new. It didn't start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn't exist - not even in the U.S. I've evolved with the music.

I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something.

After all, folk-fusion is my favourite genre.

My music is a little bit of everything - R&B, hip-hop, EDM.

I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of the Atlanta scene. But Philly, too.

I really just blend like rock, R&B and rap together to create a sub-genre, but it's very versatile.

Real hip-hop is Migos, Future.

I'd say I am a nice cross of R&B and Pop.

I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created.

I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.

But with country trap, I in no way want to take credit for that. I believe Young Thug would be one of the biggest pioneers in that.

What I do is a little bigger than traditional country. I've been belting all my life, so I fit right in with the musical-theater style.