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When you're you long enough, you get to this space where people start respecting you.
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I honed my craft in the military, because it's the only thing that got me through it, to be honest. Working on music - being able to come home and work on music whenever I got off - was essential. If I didn't have that, I probably would've lost my mind.
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One consistent good thing I can say about the music industry is that at least I can make music freely now, and I don't have to do it when I'm off of a nine to five shift or something.
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I enjoy making music more than anything in the world. It's the only thing that it's felt the same since I was like 15.
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The only real thing I took away from the military is that it just reinforced all the things I already thought about the underbelly of America, like how racist it is. So, it didn't really affect my music literally, but it affected the way I work on it.
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I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television.
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Rick Rubin is interesting. He doesn't wear shoes, I think? No wait, he wears shoes.
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I love soundtracks. I used to have three iPod classics: one with regular music, one with soundtracks, and one with demos on it.
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Baltimore's just like, it's like being in prison but being on the yard the whole day.
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I see lots of people online making fun of me cause at my shows there's a bunch of white people.
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Whoever likes my music, I'm gonna reciprocate that same love back to them. I'm not trying to alienate anybody.
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When I die, I want people to be like, 'Respect the music.' I don't really care if you hate me or like me - what I want badly is the validation and respect of the people.
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I really got deep into downloading music when I moved to the South and got a computer. So I was downloading the The Diplomats, AZ, Half-A-Mil, 40 Cal.
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My music experience living in Baltimore was life-altering. To this day, there is no scene that works as hard or puts as much effort into their art.
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Back in the early 1980s when rappers couldn't perform in the fancy venues because the police were too racist and scared, it was the punk venues letting them in to perform.
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I grew up in Flatbush, Queens, Laurelton. These are places where it's mostly black and there was a lot of diversity.
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The way I make music, I know what I'm doing, because I been doing this for so long. This is the only thing I'm good at.
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When I first heard 'Pearly Gates' by Mobb Deep and 50 Cent growing up, the rapper Prodigy had a line about wanting to beat Jesus up. I wasn't religious, but I'd never been introduced to something like that. I was scared and mad, but then I asked why I felt like that.
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Now that I have a little platform, and there are more eyes on me to release something, all that does is challenge me and put me under pressure, and I love being under pressure, especially musically. I might fail, but I'm excited about the possibilities.
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Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.
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I think it's important for black people in general to be aware of what's going on and do what you got to work around it. Not bow down to it publicly.
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A lot of these dudes in metal, they're just mad at the world because, like... who even knows?
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If you listen to my music, you know who I'm talking to, what I'm talking about, and exactly what my message is.
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There are so many odd things that happened that are centered around Britney Spears it's kind of amazing. There's just so many cultural moments centered around her existence and nothing else.
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Veteran' is an exercise in editing because there is a lot of moments I took out and some that almost didn't make it.
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When I released 'Veteran' and the reception was good, it was the first time I ever worked really hard on something and had that hard work reciprocated back to me.
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Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.
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I am used to experiencing so much trauma, that when I see it, I have to speak out. I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but if you don't say something or be silent or avoid it, I believe it shows your true real character to the world. It's like, if no one wants to rap about gentrification then I am going to fill that void!
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I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.
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America to me is where I grew up: in Brooklyn, around other black and Latino people who helped and loved each other. I just want to show people that America doesn't have to be this 'I'm in the NRA, blah blah blah' type of place.
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Originally my entire goal with music was for it to be my job. When I sit down to make a beat, I wanna know that I'm gonna get paid from it, and that I can pay my bills and still have money left over to be a person.
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I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.
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I don't know if there's anything Kanye West can do that can erase his influence on me, because it's here. It's already there. He can't even reverse that himself, because it's just so ingrained in me.
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The first time I ever went to Texas was on a bus with curtains draped over the windows. I just joined the military and got shipped off to basic training in San Antonio.
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My first live performance was when I was in the military. I went to some bar, and they had open mics. You could just sign up and perform. Nobody cared. Nobody liked it.
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After the military, I floundered around between jobs for a while, and there was an opportunity for me to go live in Japan. I was living on the Okinawa Airport Base, off the grid, no real address.
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