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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

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If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

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You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

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I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 3rd, 1975

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