Adam Levine Says Hip-Hop Is Most Innovative Genre

Maroon 5 frontman, Adam Levine says Hip-Hop is more innovative than any other genre. In an interview with Variety, Levine says that his band has always looked up to Hip-Hop…

Published Nov 30, 2018 9:41 AM EST

SAN ANTONIO, TX – APRIL 01: Adam Levine of Maroon 5 performs during the Capital One JamFest onstage at the NCAA March Madness Music Festival at Hemisfair on April 1, 2018 in San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Turner)

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Maroon 5 frontman, Adam Levine says Hip-Hop is more innovative than any other genre.

In an interview with Variety, Levine says that his band has always looked up to Hip-Hop and R&B music. Levine calls Hip-Hop “weird and avant-garde and flawed and real,” he also says that’s why people love it.

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Levine hopes to find inspiration in Hip-Hop and hopes to use the inspiration as a way to make music that will be timeless, “My main criteria for a song is, can I live with it forever? And if I can’t, I just don’t have the heart to do it. It’s that simple.”