Umm Fatboy Slim got me interested in techno (even though he's not really 'techno') I really found the style that I loved when I heard DJ Splash. Also Blink 182 has influenced my music a lot through just their simplicity and showing it's not always the most 'musically' talented that make the best music.

Omega Productions (a unknown producer from Chicago, Ilinois). Ozonebeats (a producer from Soundclick, he was owning back in the days).. Kanebeatz (Dirrty South producer).. Ryan Leslie offcourse. Storch. Gotta show love to: Soundz, Cornaboyz, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. L.E.G.E.A.U. and a whole lotta other producers.. Too many to mention. Sometimes I just love a producer for this one beat he made =P.

Anno Domini (and 2Deep). They're just ...great.
Then it would be Mike Shinoda (Fort Minor), his beats are just crazy sick.
And some other ones I don't remember now... but if I will, I'm gonna say their names too.

I'm influenced by many different things every day I guess... :/

Well influencing me to produce, i really influenced myself and it's something i found value in and i knew i found what i wanted to do when i first started getting heavy into it. What influences me to go harder is my mom, she got diagnosed with a rare breast cancer that can never be fully removed from her body (terminal, if anyone knows). That influences me to make beats 24/7. I would have to agree with Shayne too, i like hearing people that aren't in the industry cuz some people in here could be makin beats for major artists.

i get influenced by everything around me, but mostly on a subconcios level..
like ill hear somebody dropping a glass on the floor and 2 days later ill feel like layering the sound of a cracking bottle with some cymbals or something
theres really alot of small elements that come to play so that makes it kinda hard to define my influences

but looking at other beatmakers i would say im mostly influenced by J Dilla, 9th wonder, Black Milk, Pete rock and the likes.

well let me start by saying HATTERS!!!!!!!! first and foremost. The sensation i get form a hatter influences me and drives me the most other than that I jus like real good music i like to watch u tube videos of timbo, yay, jigga, luda, in the studio doing nothing but sitting around trynna figure out why the 808 isn't working with the rest of the track it makes me wanna get up and get at it. but even more than that it's like u said at first unknown cat's who have the drive to keep doing this everyday also inspires me to keep going we are the producers of tomorrow.

~ Irv ~

Dam those hatters

^
lol, that's cruel!

Timbo is my biggest influence

My great grandmother, R.I.P. and where im from. Alabama stand up!

Haha well if you're going to rant make sure that you do so with correct spelling and grammer