Quotes About Influence

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

I think the average country music fan grew up the same exact way that all the artists did, listening to hip-hop and country and R&B and pop and whatever it may be.

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

One of my favorite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favorite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together, and that's Lil Peep.

I am hip-hop!

Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac.

I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.

I'm a hip-hop fan.

I love hip-hop, and everybody knows that.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

Without hip-hop, Da Brat wouldn't exist.

I love the hip-hop nation.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.

Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.