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When I first started rapping, I used to just jock Jay Z super hard. Back when I was like 14 and 15, it was, like, Jay Z, Ice Cube, and Lil Wayne.
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I started producing when I was listening to The Diplomats. The first time I heard Cam'ron was 'Dead or Alive.'
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There's just more emotion and raw feeling in Baltimore music. It can't be copied.
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Liberals allow right-wingers on their platforms to have a 'civilized discussion,' but there's no reasoning with racists. I don't want them to have a platform that humanizes them. I want to talk down to them and meet them exactly where they are, with absolutely no respect.
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The idea of me being an icon or something is a very funny thing, just because of my own weird insecurities. But, yeah... probably because I toiled away being nothing for so long.
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I'm always just gonna do whatever I want. I don't feel any pressure to appeal to anyone in particular.
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Everything I say is true and from the heart. I exaggerate some things, but the core base of it is just facts.
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People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder - Rap evolves faster than any other genre.
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On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music.
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As a black person, I have two parties to choose from: liberal and conservative. If I choose to be a liberal - regardless of who I choose - I'm picking the lesser of two evils in my mind basically.
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I'm going to shock you with the truth. I'm just going to give it to you raw, and however you take it, I'm just going to watch your reaction.
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For me, sampling is a high art. Most people don't see it that way, but it's a beautiful thing. I wouldn't know anything about music if it wasn't for samples.
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Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth - even myself. But you can't manufacture a hard truth and place it on somebody. When Kanye says slavery was a choice, that's not a harsh truth.
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I'm aware that if I make a country album and release it, and it gets on the Grammys, the Grammys are going to put it in the Urban category. Just my blackness automatically sets it in there.
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There's no right or wrong way to do things and I think a lot of the SoundCloud rappers with their DIY music are proving that to be true.
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Well, me and Freaky been knowing each other for a while, and he was always playing crazy music in his room, but he would never release it. He's, like, the most underground rapper I know, and he's crazy talented.
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Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.
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If I wasn't making music I'd still be listening to it and talking about it. That's why I'm able to chill with Denzel Curry and then Jeff Tweedy, because the thing that's linking us is music.
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Bjork for sure. Definitely, I would like to do like something with Tommy Genesis, too. There's a lot of people actually.
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So much of rap sounds the same, and that's okay, but that means some people want something that can be the complete opposite too.
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I've been watching anime for a minute, so I know like real weird deep anime that people probably don't care about.
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If Kanye was not in the equation, I literally wouldn't even be here. His music pushed hip-hop - the man is a master at taking a complex idea and presenting it in a way that is accessible for everyone.
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My dad used to play old dancehall records - Cutty Ranks, Ranking Dread, Michael Prophet, these type of dudes.
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I saw Fear perform live at a young age, so I guess you could say I draw from that same energy.
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In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.
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I don't have a manager who's secretly on Interscope. I'm the complete opposite of an industry plant.
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The first thing I ever put on the Internet was actually a beat tape, but the first thing I ever put on where I was rapping was called 'Generation Y,' and it was hella political.
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I don't want anyone to expect anything from me. I just want them to know that I'm gonna put 1,037% into whatever I do. If I tell you I'm gonna release a folk/reggae/country album, just know at bare minimum there's gonna be 1,010% put into it.
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Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they're always looking to future and not appreciating what's in front of them right now.
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I'm not some patriot. I didn't have some yearning to defend my country or anything. I was poor.
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I don't think any other place puts out music with no promise of success and still works like Baltimore.
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