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Profession: Musician
Nationality: American
Birthday: January 15, 1981

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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

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I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

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I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

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I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

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I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

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In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

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30058 is the ZIP Code I grew up in in Atlanta, so the music represents where I'm from, and the mindset of '30058.' It's got a touch of reggae and a hip-hop feel. It's soothing, I think.

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I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

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I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

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I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

Lou Reed

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I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.

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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

Zak Orth

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I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

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I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

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The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.

Philippa Gregory

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I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

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Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

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