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I looked up to Too Short before I was making my own music.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.

I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

I loved Lauryn Hill; I loved the Fugees.

I've always wanted to work with Klashnekoff. He's been around for years! He's sorta my age but he is dope. The flow, the lyrics, it's just dope music.

I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I still have a lot of love for hip-hop, so I want to do more collaborations in that sense.

I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.

I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a hook on one of his songs or he featured on one of my songs. It would be incredible. I've just always admired him since I was young.

There are guys like Chance the Rapper; I'm a big fan of his.

It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style.

I would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.' I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

Working with Ice Cube was so tight. He's cool, and I really like how he does family stuff. My guy friends couldn't believe I was chillin' with him. Dudes love Ice Cube.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.