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My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
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I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.
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I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
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Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
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Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
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I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.