Below are some excerpts from a recent Robin Thicke interview.

SR: What artists are you listening to right now?

Robin Thicke: Just Lil’ Wayne really.  I’m always writing. I wrote a screenplay, I really love to write.  When I go out I listen to hip hop all the time, but besides that, when I’m writing I listen to jazz.

SR: You’ve worked with Usher and Lil’ Wayne a lot, do you feel they are misunderstood?

Robin Thicke: No I think that they are pretty much understood. I think everyone knows Usher is a super talent and a really great person, I don’t think there is any misunderstanding there. I think everybody knows Wayne is a genius and sometimes geniuses are made in all sorts of shapes and sizes and craziness. Whatever experiences he’s going through he’s trying to live his life to the fullest and create something and leave something behind. I don’t see any lie in either one of them.

SR: Who do you think is the King of R&B for our generation?

Robin Thicke: I don’t see R&B as a category. First of all nobody in R&B is singing about the blues, nobody has got the blues, they all have money and fame and they are not having any trouble getting girls.  For me, I make soul music. My music ain’t all about the blues either. I think that to pigeonhole that kind of stuff when hip hop is pop music. I mean what is Rihanna, is she  Soul and R&B? What is anybody anyway? For me, people say what about where music is and this and that? That’s not my job. I enjoy Chris Brown, I enjoy Rihanna, I enjoy Usher and  Kanye West and Lil Wayne. All that music is good music. It’s not everybody’s job to make all kind of music. Not everybody is Bob Dylan and not everybody is Michael Jackson, let’s just enjoy them for what they are.

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