Justine Skye Quotes

I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

My dad used to play reggae and Afrobeats. Every Sunday, we used to have these records, vinyls. And he would just play all of them - Super Cat, Ninja Man, Buju Banton.

My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.

I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.

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.'

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

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

There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

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

Reggae is my heart since I was a kid. I love Reggae music.

The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.

If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.

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

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

I really like dancehall. I really like reggae. I'm a big fan. Bob Marley and all that.

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

I grew up on dancehall music, and it holds a strong place in my heart.

I've grown up listening to Jack Johnson and John Mayer. But I also love to groove on stage like Justin Timberlake.

Reggaeton is something else - it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don't believe will ever die.

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

Here's the key to Jamaica, the secret to Jamaican dancehall parties, no matter where you are in the world. If you do not see Japanese people, you're at the wrong party. They source authenticity like no other culture I've ever seen.

I like the music from Drake. I like the music from PARTY. I like music from The Weeknd, Justin Bieber.

Puerto Rico got too futuristic with the electronic reggaeton. It lost the essence of the reggae music.

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.