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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.


Bebe Rexha

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RAVEN GOODWIN I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.
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ALAN VEGA I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
B.O.B I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my...
ASTRO Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal...
ADAM MANSBACH I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
ADAM PEATY I'm not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I'm a rock star.
FUTURE I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
DR. DRE I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
ED SHEERAN I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the loo...
LANA DEL REY I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
DAMIAN MARLEY I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi...
DARREN ARONOFSKY We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
TALIB KWELI The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensi...
DOUG E. FRESH I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ...
NAYVADIUS CASH I want people to know that I'm not just another kid M.C. I'm actually a fan of good music an...
ASTRO I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal a...
NICK CANNON Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
MICHAEL RAPAPORT Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and ...
EMINEM I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
ZOEY DEUTCH I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music...
TY DOLLA SIGN I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of...
BIG PUN We have a real thing in hip-hop about out with the old, in with the new. I'm shocked about how littl...
DEBRA HARRIS I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my co...
GUGU MBATHA-RAW I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicia...
NAS I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho...
KENDRICK LAMAR Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee...
LIL MAMA As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE Hip-hop is a style. Some of my owners are hip-hop, but they dress in a different fashion. Hip-hop do...
DAVID STERN One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou...
CHUCK D I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.
MIRA NAIR It's a hip-hop record, but it's a musician-based hip-hop record,
MIKE SHINODA Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call...
LAURYN HILL Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credi...
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JASON LEE Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typical...
ADAM KLUGER I'm very inspired by past music.
ADAM LAMBERT I'm inspired by history, different periods.
ADAM LAMBERT It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
AVICII I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to...
ASTRO I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh...
ASAP ROCKY I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I lov...
POST MALONE As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
ZENDAYA The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think ...
TALIB KWELI I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to...
ADAM MCKAY I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I starte...
LIL REL HOWERY I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle...
SEAN COMBS Look at Daft Punk and Kanye West. The song 'Stronger' was inspired by a Daft tune. Once the ...
LITTLE LOUIE VEGA Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate typ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was...
HARRISON FORD The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip ...
FAT JOE My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her,...
LAURA DERN Nah, I'm not one of those 'hip-hop is dead' people. I just like different artists. I nev...
REMY MA The Hip Hop Professor.
MICHAEL JORDAN The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
TALIB KWELI Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn...
LIL MAMA 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 Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's w...
TORI KELLY I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them ...
VALERIE JUNE I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it...
DUSTIN LYNCH Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke...
WILL.I.AM Hip-hop is a vehicle.
TALIB KWELI The Roots are true hip-hop musicians and have a unique style that many hip-hop artists don't have. I...
DAN HOOTEN I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.
DANNY MASTERSON Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rha...
BRIAN WILSON I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for ...
KID CUDI My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whethe...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
AXL ROSE I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.
BEN SAVAGE It's not for me to say what's missing in hip-hop, ... It's for me to do what's missing in hip-hop.
KANYE WEST No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool...
CARLOS WALLACE For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about Afri...
CARLOS WALLACE The business of hip hop is probably the most tangible example of the genre’s dramatic maturation.
CARLOS WALLACE Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi...
ERYKAH BADU It's a war on hip hop,
JA RULE My biggest style inspirations come from the '90s. I'm really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson,...
KAT GRAHAM I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I'm honored and grateful that peop...
WINNIE HARLOW I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.
CHARLIE PUTH I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda ...
TROMBONE SHORTY I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot ...
TALIB KWELI I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.
BRAD DELSON I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
KARRINE STEFFANS Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From a...
ALEX EBERT I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
ELLE FANNING Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite/ sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet...
NASIR JONES Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone...
JAY-Z Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
CHUCK D This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc...
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