If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it’ll just always be shallow.
DR. DREI don’t even listen to the records after they come out. It’s outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can’t play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it’s just business. Numbers.
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I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
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I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
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I’d rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He’s trying to kill everybody in jail.
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People are always coming up to me, thinking I’ve got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.
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Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.
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I’ve looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I’m there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I’ve been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.
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Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
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I just took some ecstasy, ain’t no tellin’ what the side effects could be.
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Those who are quiet will always cause riots.
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I don’t even listen to the records after they come out. It’s outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can’t play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it’s just business. Numbers.
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I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?
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BSB are my personal favorites.
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I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
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The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.
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You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
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