Jay IDK Quotes
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At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I began to understand the industry, the more I fell in love with it.
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Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.
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A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.
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I'm from the DMV, which is D.C.-Maryland-Virginia - Prince George's County in Maryland, to be specific.
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Working with BJ The Chicago Kid was amazing.
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I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to tell.
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I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.
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Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.
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I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.
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People have compared me to Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Eminem, and J. Cole. They bring substance and largely are all good storytellers, and those are two of my biggest strengths. It's dope to be compared to people who have longevity in the game because that's the most important thing for me: I want my name to live forever.
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The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.
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I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.
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I wanna be the most successful socially aware artist: Grammys, number one singles, albums, overseas and internationally-known household name, all that.
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'The Empty Bank' talks about really specific instances where I kind of make the wrong moves based off of money, and it also details instances where I was acting like I had money when I really didn't have that much money.
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If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'
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When I started my writing process for 'Empty Bank,' everything had to do with money. It was at a time in my life where I started to see money differently.
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There's peer pressure of not being respected of having a certain amount of money, but if you know who you are, then you see that and look past it.
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I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.
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I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
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At times, I can be a slave to money.
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Everyone who watches Adult Swim knows there's a sound to it, a feeling that's nostalgic sometimes, but then it's also different and outside the box.
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I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.
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There are a lot of things that money can't buy, and once you realize that is how you break free.
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I think the best rappers practice concept albums in their work.