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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.