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" It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics. "

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" I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That's how I classify myself. "

" I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6. "

" I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. "

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" I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room. "

" I hated the thought of being just a songwriter. "

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" I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label. "

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" It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on. "

" In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart. "

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" You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing. "

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" A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined. "

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