ASAP Ferg Quotes

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ASAP Ferg

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 20, 1988

There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.

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I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

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Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.

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Sometimes I can't sleep 'cause I can't get a melody or a beat out my head, so I just have to wake up and, like, record it on a voice note.

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No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

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Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

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I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.

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I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

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I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

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I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.

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DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.

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It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.

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I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.

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I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it's cool or looks cool.

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Chris Brown owns 14 of my belts. Swizz Beatz owns a zillion of my belts. They were supporting me before I was even anybody.

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Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?

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'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.

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I'm an animal lover.

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If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.

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I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

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