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I grew up listening to a lot of early '90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.'s 'The Portrait of a Masterpiece' was something that had a big influence on me.

— Riz Ahmed

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

— Bobby Moynihan

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.

— Alex Ebert

Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's when I was born, too. I'm a '90s kid for sure.

— Tori Kelly

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

— Ed Sheeran

In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me.

— Lukas Forchhammer

With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

— Jordin Sparks

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.

— Raphael Saadiq

I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year was 'I Got 5 on It' by Luniz, and the 'I Got 5 on It' remix was the joint that everybody was jamming constantly. And then it was also at that particular time that I became a fan of the Wu-Tang Clan.

— Sterling K. Brown

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

— Leslie Odom, Jr.

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

— Kip Winger