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Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Actor
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Record Producer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.
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I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids. But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.
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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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It's easy for me to say, Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid.
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I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of Why should I share my money with these people? We have to get back to we. It's important to get back to we not just I.
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I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.
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I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.
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It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.
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Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, 1, 2, 3, 4.
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When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
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