Daystar Peterson Quotes
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I love 50 Cent. I know it sounds weird 'cause a lot of kids might not say that right now, but I definitely want to work with 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Coldplay: I want to work with different artists that are going to push my music to a new level. Not just in urban music.
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I'm a big Justin Bieber fan. I've been a Justin Bieber fan. I've been listening to his music. OG, you know. That's also my friend, too, so, you know. It's just one of those things. We've been supporting each other's music for a long, long, long time.
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I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.
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I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.
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'I Told You' is for all the people who've been doubted, the underdogs.
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I don't have no personal problems with nobody.
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I'm getting money over here. I'm good, I'm young, I'm finally in a position to feed my family; please don't take that away from me.
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For me personally, my favourite part of performing is just going in the crowd and doing crazy things that they never expected to see. Challenging myself to do new things that I never expected to do. That's the biggest thing for me.
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I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.
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Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.
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I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.
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I know why I'm here. I know why I was placed in music, and it's not by coincidence.
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Subconciously, the things you listen to and you believe in, those things are going to come out, you know what I mean? I think you take that and make it your sound; that's what I do when I'm putting together genres of music.
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I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.
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Singing is one of the most important components to me. That's kinda how it all started.
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The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible to me - it's all out of the heart; I didn't take time to pre-calculate it.
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I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.
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I'm not a singer. I'm not an R&B singer. I'm an artist.
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I definitely want to work with Kanye, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande - all the big people.
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It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.
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Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I'm on the side of the music.
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My mom died when I was 11 years old.
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I started singing to this one John Legend record; it was called 'Each Day Gets Better,' or something like that. I started to realize, 'Wow, I really sound like this dude. If I keep doing this, maybe I can sound dope like John Legend and still rap.'
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I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.