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I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

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Hoodie Allen
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Musician
Rapper
Singer
Plainview
New York
Steven Adam Markowitz
Andrew Alen
Music
Trying
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Influential
Recording
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