I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when his intentions aren't right.
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I'm always trying to innovate because if you stay behind and fight the future, you'll just get left behind.
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To me, rap music is bigger than the best rapper, the biggest rapper. Its all about your personality.
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Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I love digging up old music and see what I can be influenced by.
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New York is very serious about creating work. Everything's happening so fast, it's like there's another studio, another session on every block, and I love that.
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You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around yourself to protect yourself, you're a loser.
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New York seems like the whole city is immersed in dance music. It didn't seem like this when I was young. There was more of a hipster scene.
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I was never very good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for him, because that's where people go to die.
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If someone is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
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I just prefer to collaborate with people who take my ideas seriously, and who don't build walls around themselves.