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I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.

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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Pimentel
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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego the wall protecting that emotion.
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I think the goal is in general to broaden my fans' perspectives and their horizons. Not to be cliché. But to introduce them to things that they may not have introduced to themselves.
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I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.
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When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
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That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.
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It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.
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I know I'm a very dynamic performer. Once you come to the show, you're gonna want to have the album. I think it's more about showing people that it's OK to share similarities, but it's more important to embrace your individuality.
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When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.
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I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.
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I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
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Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.
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I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way
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What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.
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PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!
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I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.
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I associate creativity with independent music.
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Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.
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I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.
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You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
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I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.
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