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I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.


Chauncey Billups

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I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.
LIL UZI VERT I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.
WIZ KHALIFA I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop....
KREAYSHAWN Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus...
CAT POWER MOST DAYS MY LIFE
CAN BE SUMMED UP IN
MOVIE QUOTES
AND
HIP HOP AND R&B LYR...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER 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...
BEBE REXHA The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, ...
MICHELLE CARTER I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&a...
LEXI THOMPSON But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&a...
JENNIFER LOPEZ I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
ELLE FANNING As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.
JACOB LATIMORE I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that...
BRYSON TILLER Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a par...
JOHN LEGEND In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ...
BILL CLEGG I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&...
KEHLANI You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b...
ERIC BURDON I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my co...
GUGU MBATHA-RAW My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o...
CHRIS STAPLETON If you aren't selling R&B and hip-hop, it's like running a grocery store without selling bread and m...
BILL KENNEDY I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, ...
RAVEN GOODWIN When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the R...
GARY CLARK, JR. See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school ...
BLAKE ANDERSON When I am performing live, I walk into a room, and I just try to get a feel for the vibe, and I am c...
GRANDMASTER FLASH Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to ove...
CHUCK EDDY Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...
ALOE BLACC I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
BRETT FAVRE I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-s...
ELLE KING I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music...
TY DOLLA SIGN I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and eve...
BILLY PAUL Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.
PATRICK EWING Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.
ALVIN GENTRY I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was...
MISTY COPELAND I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'sou...
PATRICK STUMP Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee...
MARVIN SAPP I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm defin...
JAMIE FOXX Hip-hop I never really got really into mainly just because I'm not a big fan of rap. I do like R...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m...
MATT HARVEY I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,...
NAYVADIUS CASH I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th...
COCO LEE I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind o...
ASHTHON JONES Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' ...
DIPLO To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.
CHRIS CORNELL Jagged Edge is one of my favorite R&B groups.
TY DOLLA SIGN My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
LUIS FONSI I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.
DANNY MASTERSON R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from t...
BABYFACE We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing grow...
DREW HULL I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i...
TRACY CHAPMAN There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out t...
TYGA I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
BEBE REXHA Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do...
WILLIE NELSON I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ...
QUINCY JONES I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi...
DARREN ARONOFSKY I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle...
SEAN COMBS Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or ca...
KELIS I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
GARY CARTER That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h...
ALAN VEGA I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
PHILIP KERR My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's ...
KIESZA I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
TALIB KWELI I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
ADAM PEATY I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my...
ASTRO Lately I've been interested in a lot of hip hop music.
BRITNEY SPEARS There are forms of hip-hop that we play that never get exposed up there. There are probably some R&B...
BRIAN WALLACE Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call...
LAURYN HILL I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I p...
MAC DEMARCO I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced mayb...
ERIK HASSLE The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY When they started in with the hip-hop music, people poured out onto the street and started raising C...
WILLIAM BENSON I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ...
JOHN LEGEND In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.
AUTRE NE VEUT My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
JOHN OATES White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enoug...
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, s...
ANDRA DAY Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a...
HERBIE HANCOCK I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
DIPLO I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
FRED DURST At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop b...
FLO RIDA A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
ROY AYERS I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
L'WREN SCOTT R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who becam...
GEORGE BENSON I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
DAMIAN MARLEY When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Reddin...
NEIL PEART I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.
MAYER HAWTHORNE I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
PITBULL I fell in love with hip-hop in the 90's to 80's music...
DONNAYSIA IFIELD All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music ...
MIKE D I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ...
JOHN OATES I've got a combination of the blues mixed with hip-hop-all in one sound. I'm going to make a real bi...
IKE TURNER Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment ...
CHUCK D It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen...
DAN HILL

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