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Profession : Musician

Birth : October 22, 1989

I started producing when I was listening to The Diplomats. The first time I heard Cam'ron was 'Dead or Alive.'

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I really got deep into downloading music when I moved to the South and got a computer. So I was downloading the The Diplomats, AZ, Half-A-Mil, 40 Cal.

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When I die, I want people to be like, 'Respect the music.' I don't really care if you hate me or like me - what I want badly is the validation and respect of the people.

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I been compared a lot to Brockhampton a lot.

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The first thing I ever put on the Internet was actually a beat tape, but the first thing I ever put on where I was rapping was called 'Generation Y,' and it was hella political.

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Well, me and Freaky been knowing each other for a while, and he was always playing crazy music in his room, but he would never release it. He's, like, the most underground rapper I know, and he's crazy talented.

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I see lots of people online making fun of me cause at my shows there's a bunch of white people.

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Most of my experience with racism comes from living in the South.

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I'm an artist but I'm also a real person. I have bills like everyone else.

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Baltimore's just like, it's like being in prison but being on the yard the whole day.

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I love Baltimore, I miss the people, but I think L.A. is way more chill.

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I like for things to be judged fairly.

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If I wasn't making music I'd still be listening to it and talking about it. That's why I'm able to chill with Denzel Curry and then Jeff Tweedy, because the thing that's linking us is music.

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I love soundtracks. I used to have three iPod classics: one with regular music, one with soundtracks, and one with demos on it.

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Rick Rubin is interesting. He doesn't wear shoes, I think? No wait, he wears shoes.

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I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television.

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My first live performance was when I was in the military. I went to some bar, and they had open mics. You could just sign up and perform. Nobody cared. Nobody liked it.

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When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

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The only real thing I took away from the military is that it just reinforced all the things I already thought about the underbelly of America, like how racist it is. So, it didn't really affect my music literally, but it affected the way I work on it.

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I enjoy making music more than anything in the world. It's the only thing that it's felt the same since I was like 15.

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