I appreciate Drake's music, I appreciate Future's music, I appreciate Lil Durk's music. I appreciate Uzi, Meek Mill, I appreciate Migos.
With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."
Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.
Reggaeton is amazing.
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
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.
This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse rock music and indie rock music in terms of popularity, which it has certainly gone on to do. But you know, this is the end of the 1980s, beginning of the '90s. The whole independent label thing has really evolved to this incredible point from the early '80s when we started, and there wasn't one record label at all, until a couple people started forming these small labels.
R&B is everywhere, and I am who I am.
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
I love Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Usher, Mariah Carey... all that stuff.
Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.
It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
The energy from these records, that's what makes crunk so popular; that's why it's winning, because it makes you move a certain way.
I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.
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.
I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.
As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.
Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.
I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.
The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I'm a huge fan of the '80s, Journey and all that fun stuff. But when I moved to Orlando, it was more like Boyz II Men.
I love '90s and '00s R&B, and those songs go on for ever.
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
