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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, you don't have a ton of spaces where you are honored, where what you think is honored and what you say is revered.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is this idea about authenticity as a rapper, in the fact that you rap things that are yours. That's not what doing a play is. You're interpreting somebody else's words.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do enough rap shows, you get a pretty good sense of an audience. You start to develop this sense of what a feeling of a room or a group is.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, anytime I'm onstage, I tend to feel very connected with people in the audience or with the sort of heartbeat or tempo of the audience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing.
- Recognizable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a recognizable silhouette.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thing that is possible to perform in a way that feels natural.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off.
- Big Break
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think this idea of a big break is a lie.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a project feels good to you, say yes. And do it with everything that you have and hope that the outcome is good.
- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being multiracial has allowed me to feel comfortable walking in all different circles.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I got to do the 'Hamilton' BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I've watched the BET Cyphers since it started. I've seen every one. I study them. Because I'm a rapper. It's what you do.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It's a thing I'm good at and I've trained myself to do; it's a thing I do in the Bay Area.
- Broadway
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't aspire to be on Broadway.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially if you're in any kind of marginalized community where people don't want to listen. You have to come up with tricks to make them listen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To walk into a casting room full of people who look like you is a crazy thing. What is the thing that necessitates all of us having the exact same shade of skin and having the same hair? What about this deodorant commercial needs that?
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt so loved and taken care of, and that's a huge part of the reason I'm able to do what I do.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.
- Vinyl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have all of Kendrick Lamar on vinyl.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason for somebody who's good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They're different parts of your brain. You can develop both skills. I'm a much better writer.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was very shy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked being on stage because it gave me a reason to be around people. The other great thing about acting is it allows you to imagine circumstances different from your own. I was a poor Bay Area kid getting to pretend to be a Russian aristocrat.
- Hebrew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.
- Nov 07, 2020
Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.
- Area
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what kids are watching. But there aren't a lot of spaces that care about what kids are saying.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that 'Black-ish' is a pretty traditional sitcom, structurally. It functions like the sitcoms from the '80s and '90s that I grew up with.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has to feel real.
- Miss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss doing a straight play.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself a nerd all the time.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't want me. There's nothing there for me.' I'd come to New York a lot and never even tried to see a Broadway show. There was no reason for me to do that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is about who tells it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Broadway was weird.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020