JPEGMAFIA Quotes

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Profession : Musician

Birth : October 22, 1989

Liberals allow right-wingers on their platforms to have a 'civilized discussion,' but there's no reasoning with racists. I don't want them to have a platform that humanizes them. I want to talk down to them and meet them exactly where they are, with absolutely no respect.

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I used to get stop-and-frisked every time I walked out of my house.

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I want to work with Danny Brown but also Cannibal Corpse and Maroon 5.

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When I first heard 'Pearly Gates' by Mobb Deep and 50 Cent growing up, the rapper Prodigy had a line about wanting to beat Jesus up. I wasn't religious, but I'd never been introduced to something like that. I was scared and mad, but then I asked why I felt like that.

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Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

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I'm always just gonna do whatever I want. I don't feel any pressure to appeal to anyone in particular.

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I don't want anyone to expect anything from me. I just want them to know that I'm gonna put 1,037% into whatever I do. If I tell you I'm gonna release a folk/reggae/country album, just know at bare minimum there's gonna be 1,010% put into it.

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The way I make music, I know what I'm doing, because I been doing this for so long. This is the only thing I'm good at.

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I don't know if there's anything Kanye West can do that can erase his influence on me, because it's here. It's already there. He can't even reverse that himself, because it's just so ingrained in me.

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I grew up in Flatbush, Queens, Laurelton. These are places where it's mostly black and there was a lot of diversity.

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I've been watching anime for a minute, so I know like real weird deep anime that people probably don't care about.

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Back in the early 1980s when rappers couldn't perform in the fancy venues because the police were too racist and scared, it was the punk venues letting them in to perform.

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I saw Fear perform live at a young age, so I guess you could say I draw from that same energy.

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The intention behind 'Prone!' was to make a punk song with no instruments.

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People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder - Rap evolves faster than any other genre.

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There's no right or wrong way to do things and I think a lot of the SoundCloud rappers with their DIY music are proving that to be true.

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My music experience living in Baltimore was life-altering. To this day, there is no scene that works as hard or puts as much effort into their art.

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I don't think any other place puts out music with no promise of success and still works like Baltimore.

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There's just more emotion and raw feeling in Baltimore music. It can't be copied.

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I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.

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