I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.
Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there.
I like African music but also R&B, rap, alternative rock, and classic.
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach
I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.
I listened to a lot of reggae music, a lot of Caribbean, a lot of gospel, a lot of rock, a lot of country, hip-hop... you know, so it just gave me perspective when it came to music and what I liked.
When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.
I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
Reggae is vile.
One of my favourite songs is 'A Message to You, Rudy,' which was done by the Specials.
I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.
I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.
When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.
The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.
I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.
The Florida sound would probably be best defined as heavy bass with high energy dance records. There's a strong Caribbean heritage in Florida which features a lot of uptempo music, and the music accents the sexy, body-oriented sound.
Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you told us goodbye And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!
You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
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.
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I prefer black music in general.
