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My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Frank Ocean

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.
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Enjoyment Happiness Lyrics Music Understand
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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Acceptance Hard Work Past Poor Story
It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.
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Cool Peer Recognize
I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.
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Guess Story
I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.
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Believe Sin Team Work Try
The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool.
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Cool Ideas Inspirational Recognize Strength Versatile
It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
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Area Interesting Superior
I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
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Business Content Creative Diminish Provide
I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
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Afraid Fear Merit People Subject Touch
You can’t think; you just gotta do things.
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Inspirational One Liner Thinking Work Hard
I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.
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Business Creative Important Person Respect Role Model
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
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Focus People Story
I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.
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Break Up I Miss You Relationship Wait
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
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Communication Feeling Radio Sing Talk Tune Writing
Smile, it’s easier than explaning why you’re sad.
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Easy Explanation Sad Smile
I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
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Artist Myself Thinking

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

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