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Quotes
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I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't
understand the concept of people talking over music.
I
grew up listening to everything outside hip-hop. Hip-hop came later in
my life. I grew up listening to Black Uhuru, Bob Marley, Tracy Chapman,
the names just keep going. From Creed to Hootie and the Blowfish to 3
Doors Down to Guns and Roses, you name it. When you look at my closet of
music you’re gonna find a little something of everything. You barely
might find any rap. Only rap CD you might find is Fugees, 2Pac and
Biggie.
I’m
a studio musician. You get me in the studio I can play an accordion. 4
bars and loop it back. Percussion is my main field.
I
was outta control. Anything you needed, I had it. I mean anything. From
candy, to bullets. I had test questions for every test. Everything you
need I had you. You didn’t study you needed answers to the test I had
you.
Eventually
they raided my locker and I was kicked out of highschool, which was in
Jersey City and I couldn’t go to no school in the district so I had to
do my last year in Bayonne Highscool, upstate.
When
I sing the sound comes from the mood that I am in. These records are
coming straight from the heart.
I’m
looking for someone who’s not trying to compete against me. I’m
looking for a woman that’s willing to be a woman. Let me do the manly
things, she do the female-y things. Her 50 part, I do my 50 part and
keep moving. I know it’s like today a lot of women like to compete
against guys. Like they feel like “I can do it myself I don’t need
no man.” I don’t like that attitude.
As
I started growing up, living a little and listening to the lyrics, I
realized that I was going through a lot of stuff these rappers were
talking about and I could relate.
I
look mad young. I look younger than I am, way younger.
They’re mad traditional. The thing was at the time I was living in Jersey they were in Atlanta. In Africa they make you go on your own at an early age like around 14 or 15.
Me and my older brother had our own crib in New Jersey. We had the car, driving around with no license.
Yeah, you'd catch me wearing suits the whole time. Just not when I'm in my artist mode. Probably when I'm in my executive mode, coming out of a building or something, you'd catch me in a suit.
An
American thing! In Africa, women don’t do that. In Africa men are
treated differently there. Here is like there’s really no difference
between a man and a woman besides sex. Like women do everything men are
doing so after a while men start treating the women like men.
Women
will start realizing why men don’t treat them like ladies. Men are
looking at them like you’re trying to be like me. Femininity is all
out the window. The sweetness, the love aspect of it, the emotional part
of the woman is gone because she walks around with her guard up.
I
think it could be any nationality. It’s just a matter of bumping into
‘em. I know that here in the States its hard to bump into them right
away because they all been tainted a certain way. They all look at men
in a certain way. Not saying that it’s their fault, cuz here in the
States guys do a lot of things to make women treat them the way they
treat them too. Naturally when they see me, they assume I’m like
everybody else.
Trouble
evolved from the struggles I went through and what I did and am still doing to correct those
things.
I
didn’t really care about the masses. It’s something that I did for
my own satisfaction. I don’t drink, I don’t get high. It’s like my
way of saying this is me.
I’m
weeding them out. People would normally like it, but I hate the fact
that I gotta let them down. I don’t like to disappoint people.
I
grew up with it. Any kind of drum you put in front of me, I don’t care
what kind I can bang it out.
They were supporting us. We were still in school, my older brother was watching me. He was like going on 18, about to graduate. For the last couple of years he was doing I was just running through highschool and ended up getting kicked out.
I've
got a habit of writing about everything I go through.
When
I'm on the mic, I'm just giving the listener a part of me.
If
it comes, it comes, but it’s not like a main focus. If you go looking
for something you’re never gone find what you’re looking for. If
it’s meant for you it’s gonna find you.
Selling
guns out the locker.
I
have so many records put away now, it was just a matter of picking 13
songs and selling it. It was all these songs that were done, like 150
songs pretty much complete before I signed the deal. That situation came
to me. It was like a choice. The music got to the man who could actually
put you in a situation where you can make a lot of money, but people
would know your whole life story.
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