Dave East Quotes

Dave East

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 3, 1988

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.

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You're born a certain way, but you don't gotta die like that.

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Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.

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I want to eventually get to a point where I can make all types of music for every type of crowd.

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My father brought a basketball to the hospital when I was born, and he already had it embedded in his head that I would be a ball player.

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I always wanted to do something I knew I could love to wake up and do every day, and rap was just second nature to me, growing up in Harlem. I never really had to try.

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I want to put out music that everyday people can relate to.

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I wanna be in a movie, I wanna have a clothing line, I wanna put myself in a position where, when I'm dead and gone, or I can't rap anymore, that's still moving. Tupac and Biggie, they've been dead 10-plus years and people talk about them everyday. I'm gonna try to speak everything into existence. I know the music is my key to get there.

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Since the '80s, Harlem has the place to go. Before the '80s, just as far as hip-hop go, Harlem has always been a strong point, fashion-wise, music-wise, all of that.

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I never thought I'd be sitting across the table with the owner of Hennessy.

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My standout moment I would have to say was when 'Black Rose' dropped and getting the co-sign from Nas and The LOX. I would say all those moments together were crazy for me.

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I think my music is more personal than most of the music I'm hearing.

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When I'm dead, gone or whatever, people will always remember my name and the music I did during my time.

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Nas really introduced the world and a lot of people to me - that was ideal as far as me first coming in.

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I was with Mass Appeal solely for almost two years.

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I feel like a lyricist is somebody that writes their own lyrics. Now songwriters and lyricists are two totally different things. You can't really be a lyricist if you didn't write your lyrics. There's no passion, there's nothing in it coming from you. It's somebody else's feelings and you just taking it and running with it.

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I write all my own music, everything.

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People don't get signed by Def Jam every day on my block.

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I wouldn't tell nobody to sign no slave deal or sign your life away or nothing like that, but if the deal is right and if it benefits you, you'd be a fool if you did not take advantage of it.

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I think what sets a New York rapper apart from other rappers from other places is just being from New York.

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