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But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
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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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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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Great coders are today’s rock stars.
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Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.
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There's an entry point to any relationship.
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I'm fascinated with quantum physics.
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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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I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.
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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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My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
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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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Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.
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