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" The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music. "

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" Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc. "

" I don't despise people. "

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" Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. "

" If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off. "

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" I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas. "

" Code writers, they are my idols. "

" If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music. "

" How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts. "

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" When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time. "

" I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now. "

" Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it. "

" When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down. "

" Romantic love is painful. "

" I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. "

" My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude. "

" If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare. "

" You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment. "

" It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied. "

" I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down. "

" When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers. "

" If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future. "

" Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions? "

" If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house. "

" I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad. "

" I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it. "

" I don't need anyone to validate me. "

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" I can procrastinate a little bit. "

" America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing. "

" Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be. "