Young Buck Quotes

Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.

Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things.

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.

We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

You know, I love the South.

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that was the hip crowd. So I was being exposed to all these ideas, from Big Daddy Kane to Eazy-E to the Bay Area - Too Short, E-40 - you know, back to Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

My mom was a big UGK fan.

I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

I got southern roots from Texas all the way to Louisiana, went to Grambling State back in the day, my whole career I've done songs with down South artists.

I grew up on N.W.A., Geto Boys. My dad was listening to that.

I grew up in the area where we had Three 6 Mafia, and Playa Fly, and 8Ball & MJG. My parents and my family used to listen to it. I learned from them there, and got more into it - listening to the beat of songs, and just learning more about music.

I grew up listening to the Hot Boys, with Lil Wayne and all those guys.

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

I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South.

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.