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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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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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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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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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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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Baltimore’s just like, it’s like being in prison but being on the yard the whole day.
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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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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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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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Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.
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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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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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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 have a manager who’s secretly on Interscope. I’m the complete opposite of an industry plant.
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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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I don’t rely on the strength of my image.
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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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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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I have no history with 4chan.
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