John Legend
Related Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee... MARVIN SAPP I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so... MISSY ELLIOTT The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder... RONNIE WOOD I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop.... KREAYSHAWN TYGA I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,... NAYVADIUS CASH There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic... DAVID GUETTA White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enoug... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'... YELAWOLF Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus... CAT POWER LIL UZI VERT BRYSON TILLER Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' ... DIPLO TALIB KWELI BILL CLEGG JENNIFER LOPEZ SEAN COMBS BABYFACE I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm defin... JAMIE FOXX MOS DEF Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen... DAN HILL It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca... LIONEL RICHIE SAUL WILLIAMS Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur... JAMIE FOXX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h... ALAN VEGA I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the ... JOSE JAMES QUINCY JONES I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'sou... PATRICK STUMP Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical... ADAM KLUGER How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA TRACY CHAPMAN Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music aren... MARVIN SAPP It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON KENDRICK LAMAR I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see... MAREN MORRIS Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is... DAN AUERBACH QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER I'm a fan of FKA Twigs, The Weeknd. I love that kind of ambient R&B. I feel like it's ju... NE-YO My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o... CHRIS STAPLETON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th... COCO LEE QUINCY JONES My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's ... KIESZA The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ... VANESSA BROWN DARREN ARONOFSKY KEHLANI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES LAURYN HILL My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA LEXI THOMPSON Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ... JOSE JAMES Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen... CHADWICK BOSEMAN I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity i... MISSY ELLIOTT America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it... TAYLOR HAWKINS CHUCK D TALIB KWELI The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds a... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA BUSTA RHYMES C. JOYBELL C. Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. BAZ LUHRMANN Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ... NAS I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a l... JOHN F. KERRY Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or ca... KELIS I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES AL FRANKEN DAVID SANBORN This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and eve... BILLY PAUL TALIB KWELI WILLIE NELSON JACK WHITE We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of ... MONIE LOVE GARY CLARK, JR. JAY-Z CHRIS LOWE THE WEEKND MAYER HAWTHORNE ASAP ROCKY A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic s... LEON BRIDGES Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to ove... CHUCK EDDY BENNY GREEN I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready. ZOEY DEUTCH Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's... CAMERON CROWE Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee... LIL MAMA I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was ver... MICHAEL RAPAPORT BRIAN JACQUES PRINCE If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling.... 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There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out t... 
I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B. 
I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that... 
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... 
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ... 
But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&a... 
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle... 
R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from t... 
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ... 
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no... 
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t... 
The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although... 
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho... 
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ... 
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi... 
I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&... 
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call... 
I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&a... 
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment ... 
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like d... 
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don&#... 
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do... 
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther... 
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the R... 
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a... 
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it... 
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai... 
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. 
For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, t... 
I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation ... 
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. 
'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go... 
I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think ... 
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'... 
When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t... 
Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure. 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li... 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
When all candles be out, all cats be grey. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
Poetry lies its way to the truth. 
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
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Old friends are best. 
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. 
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. 
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? 
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. 
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You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
I can never consent to being dictated to. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
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Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd... 
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