Urban Sound Quotes

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

I may catch some flack for this, but the Jersey style I feel is just very different from New York. When I hear a Jersey MC spit, I can just hear New Jersey in them. To where as NY, that style has been broadcasted so nationally that it's just a natural sound in music.

The ghetto music of my era is hip-hop. And Parliament, and Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye, that was all the ghetto stuff when I was a baby, and then when I was a teenager it was hip-hop and we were taking all those old '70s sounds and recreating them and putting them into a hip-hop format.

Reggaeton is a global genre.

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

I am very determined when it comes to my music, and I grew up just loving those singers who had that urban sort of feeling. So when it came down to making my record, I wanted to have that as well. ForeFront was really good about letting me go in that direction and then of course adding the more pop sounds. I feel very fortunate that I got to explore some unique and creative angles musically.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

The 'trap' sound is a sound from the city. We've always liked music with bass. We've always liked old schools with big speakers in the trunks. We like our music loud. We've always had a nightlife scene in Atlanta.

On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.