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" Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels. "
Daveed Diggs
Being
Crowd
Emcee
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" Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway. "
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" I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore. "
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" It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is this idea about authenticity as a rapper, in the fact that you rap things that are yours. That's not what doing a play is. You're interpreting somebody else's words. "
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" My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too. "
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" I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing. "
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" There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has to feel real. "
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" College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were. "
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" At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to. "
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More
McDonald
" I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music. "
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Rap
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" There's no reason for somebody who's good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They're different parts of your brain. You can develop both skills. I'm a much better writer. "
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Writing
You
" I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did. "
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Nobody
Up
" I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion. "
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Love
" I've always been a fan of 'Black-ish.' "
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" It wasn't until I got out in the world and started worked professionally when I realized that the people I admired were the ones who had taken the little snippets of what they learned that worked for them - and strung them together in their own technique. "
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Together
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World
" That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self. "
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You
Top
" The fact that I got to do the 'Hamilton' BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I've watched the BET Cyphers since it started. I've seen every one. I study them. Because I'm a rapper. It's what you do. "
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Study
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Started
" I think this idea of a big break is a lie. "
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Lie
Idea
Break
" I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It's a thing I'm good at and I've trained myself to do; it's a thing I do in the Bay Area. "
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Good
Myself
" TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time. "
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Possible
Most
Short
" Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass. "
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Create
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Rules
" I miss doing a straight play. "
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" My parents are not together, but they were both always around. "
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" We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way. "
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" If you do enough rap shows, you get a pretty good sense of an audience. You start to develop this sense of what a feeling of a room or a group is. "
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Group
" Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing. "
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" What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's attentions and forces them to hear the things that you're actually saying. "
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Saying
People
" I make the energy to go out. You can't let the Broadway schedule run you. "
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