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I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.
The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
I basically learned hip-hop from *NSYNC. And then while I was touring in theater shows, and I couldn't take classes in hip-hop but I wanted to, I just watched Justin Timberlake concerts.
I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.
That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.
We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no longer just an American thing, either. It's a universal thing.
I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight.
If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop.
At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.
I have a hip-hop podcast and get to meet all these rappers I love, so I feel very lucky.
From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.
I feel somewhere in 2016 every Bollywood movie was starting to have at least one hip-hop track which got it the mainstream vibe.
Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.
Hip-hop and country aren't too far different: They got shiny suits and the boots and the guitars with their names on it. I was infatuated with that type of stuff.
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
L.A. hip-hop is so different; it's so diverse. Out here, it's, like, funk-inspired; it's, like, '70s-skating-rink-inspired at times. It's Zapp-and-Roger-inspired; it's house-party-era-inspired.
I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.
When I was little, I used to listen to Lauryn Hill, so that's that hip-hop and R&B influence in me.
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.
I think - a lot of times in hip-hop, especially - artists get kind of pigeonholed into being 'the guy,' and it's kind of limiting in a way.
I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.
I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.
The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.
I'm a fan of hip-hop as a whole, period. I love hip-hop. I look at it as a study and I love it.
Black Ken' debuted number one on iTunes in hip-hop, and top five or ten top, top five on the whole iTunes, on all genres. It was really cool to be able to self-produce.
I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.
Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.
Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.
Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.
It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.
I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.
There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That's not me. I was very heavily influenced by rock & roll.
I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I related to it immediately.
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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