Shaggy Quotes

There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.

I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.

Tuff Gong is the name of our father's enterprise, and we're continuing his legacy.

The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.

I don't think any other place puts out music with no promise of success and still works like Baltimore.

My whole goal in this industry nowadays is to keep doing the underground stuff, but to be able to add vocals that are sexy and underground.

It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio. You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard, like Chuck D said.

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.

Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

Well, I never made a record to be in the Christian market. So when I made my record it was to exist in all of the markets. I grew up not really listening to tons of Christian music and if I did it was in the context of all the other music I listened to. So when I made the record I definitely had plans and visions and dreams.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.