Children Quote by D'wayne Wiggins

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking…

— James Vincent McMorrow

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and…

— Jesse McCartney

I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher,…

— Yuna

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and…

— Frankie Valli

I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.

— Sid Sriram

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

— Big Sean

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what…

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

When it comes to '90s R&B, I grew up on a lot of Aaliyah and Destiny's Child, Missy Elliott, Usher, Jill Scott. Whatever my…

— Justine Skye

My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of…

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs. I grew up in that age, and it was…

— MF Doom

I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into…

— Simon de Pury

When I was little, I used to listen to Lauryn Hill, so that's that hip-hop and R&B influence in me.

— Natti Natasha