The SUNY dorms yielded an epiphany. ???The halls were blasting gospel music and people were listening to stuff we???d never actually listened to, like Biggie Smalls, Missy Elliot and Jay-Z,??? recalls Levine. ???The Aaliyah record had come out around then, and we were just blown away.??? Until then, his songwriting influences had been The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel and other artists he?