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There's an entry point to any relationship.
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I've been truly protected by my uncles.
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I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
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If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
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If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!
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Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.
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Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.
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It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.
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Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.
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When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
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I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.
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The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.
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Great coders are today’s rock stars.
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Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
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What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.
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We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!
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Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
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I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
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You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.
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I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.
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My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
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When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
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The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.
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Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.