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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he's excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the decision of Robin Thicke and Pharrell, we believe that it was important to make sure that we are safe. When that Robin Thicke verdict came out, we realized that the game had changed in music.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When hip-hop came along, men and women started dressing down as a form of rebellion.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People thought 'Classic Man' was processed. But then they realized, 'Oh, this guy actually is that man, and he actually dresses like that.'
- Funky
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- Nov 07, 2020
Swanky means classy and funky.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020
My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most people, I had several awakenings.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
- Denigrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for. But I also hope when I play my songs for people - adult, children, mostly children - that they feel mighty, they feel noble, they feel like warriors. And they feel like they can do anything in the world because that's how I feel.
- Electrical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everything you touch touches you.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like quality over quantity.
- Closed
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one door is closed, break a window anyway.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people try to be someone else, and Young Thug really is who he is. I love his melodies, how he dresses, how he carries himself.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, I respect The Game. He's trail-blazed for artists like myself. I appreciate him, having - living in L.A. myself and knowing what he stands for and what he stood for.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.
- No Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no question that I was going to school.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if the production doesn't feel African, the vocal delivery - singing through your nose. Specifically, Highlife music from Nigeria. That was the first music I ever heard as a child. So singing through my nose is something I do often, and that's directly rooted in my heritage.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.
- Nov 07, 2020
I thought the suit was something that would suit me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, it's still a man's world, unfortunately, and we have a long way to go in this country and all countries - but there's something to be said for just feeling the spirit of a true man, and I think that's what 'Classic Man' speaks to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn't just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that's what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that's what people need around the world.
- Grieving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The affinity towards suits was a functional thing for me early on because I was thrifting at secondhand shops, and it was also initially a way of grieving - my father had passed, and he used to wear suits all the time.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father who gave me this name and who taught me countless parables, proverbs, and principles that made me the man I am today.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'
- Nov 07, 2020