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Ad-Rock

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 31, 1966

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

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Rap is the only super-current music. If you're into reggae or dancehall, and you don't know Bob Marley, then you don't really know what you're listening to. But if you're listening to rap, and you're 15, you're like, 'Grandmaster Flash? Who's that? Public Enemy? Yeah, my dad told me about them once.' And that's just how it is.

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To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.

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The Beatles are great for everybody - they write the songs that made the whole world sing.

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We could be as rich as the Rolling Stones if we sold as many records.

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I trust anybody's memory more than I trust mine.

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Adam Yauch started the band. It's not like a thing where we could continue without him.

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New York taught me everything.

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I grew up - my dad, every time I was with my dad, he was always - not always, but he wrote. He's a writer. So he was always in his office writing. He made a plan and, like, a point of, 'This is my work. I'm going to do this every day for these amount of hours.' So I think that's where I got, like, a work sort of ethic.

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I do like burgers, I do eat chicken - and I'm not proud of it, but I pick my nose. We all do.

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Being a straight white guy in his, like, early twenties - there's some sort of thing about it. A sort of privilege, a sort of anger or something. You just say some really stupid things.

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I watch NY1 every morning and have Pat Kiernan curate my news stories.

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I want to open a restaurant.

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You know how there's all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on 'Andy Griffith,' they had Aunt B.

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I've fallen to make people laugh. Often.

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I feel like I have a big forehead.

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I can literally walk around at our own shows, and nobody recognizes me.

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I own a car: a minivan. But don't tell anyone, 'cause they're gonna ask to borrow it.

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We did make fools of ourselves, but people were into it.

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Unfortunately, like, homework and school wasn't the thing that I was obsessing over. It was, you know, music and making music and how to like - and drum machines. And we met Rick Rubin, and Rick Rubin had a drum machine. So I would just cut school and go to his house - his dorm room.

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